In Forest High by Bob Boone, nine stories offer slice-of-life portraits of teachers with secret lives, checkered pasts, bad habits, fleeting romances, surprising depths, and questionable values. You know, like most of us. I thought the story called Coach was especially poignant, largely because of...

Henry Bradfield travels home with his family to visit his parents, only to find them clearing out all their old stuff in a garage sale. He isn't bothered until he discovers some of his most precious childhood mementos are the fastest-moving items. Trying to secure...

The Sharecropper's Son by Bobby Dan Cobbs follows the life of Dusty, a young man trapped in the cycle of poverty and oppression in rural Alabama. In the cotton fields, Dusty is consumed by a family's history of exploitation stemming from slavery's aftermath, dreaming of...

Stumbling Stones is a work of fiction in the historical fiction, interpersonal drama, and sociocultural writing subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience. Penned by author Bonnie Suchman, the novel follows the life of Alice Heppenheimer, a woman born into a...

A Regrettable Charade is a work of fiction penned by author Laura Beers in the historical romance, interpersonal drama, and suspense subgenres, and is the sixth novel in the Lords & Ladies of Mayfair book series. The work is best suited to the general adult...

Climbing to the Sun by Shelley Burchfield started with Kizzy Beecham giving birth to a little girl on January 23, 1901. Seeta Young, the midwife, assured the scared young mother that her daughter looked like a white baby, although her biological father was black. Twenty-seven...

In Love, Ruthie by Bonnie MacDougall, Ruthie Lucas is enjoying her view of Sebastian Bay when she receives a letter from a close friend, Jane. The letter asks Ruthie for her interpretation of a quote from a William Wordsworth poem, described as "child is father...

Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way is a novel by Jeffrey Blount. Ostracized by his family after a visit to a prostitute is sensationalized in the media, a well-known Black billionaire flees Washington, D.C. amid the heartbreaking ending of his marriage to seek seclusion and...

Allison had experienced her fair share of woes, including the untimely death of a beloved father-in-law and unwelcome intrusions from an overbearing and opinionated mother-in-law. However, she believed that the trying times were over as she eventually managed to form a truce with Margaret. Unfortunately,...

Trials and Tribulations by Brian Keith Higgins is a collection of the author's original flash fiction stories, each of which provides a complete story within a remarkably small word count. Each piece reads independently of the next, and while the theme of adversity is the...