John Proctor is about to turn seventy when he decides to buy a small farmhouse on the outskirts of the now mostly desolate mill town where he had grown up. Nostalgia haunts his waking hours and he often reminisces about the happier times in his...

Chris Lombardi brings us an intriguing literary piece in Blue: Season. It is the year 1993 and the month of August in East Baltimore. Molly O’Donnell gets hit by a car on one of her nightly runs and ends up being sent to a psychiatric...

Misconduct by Christopher Renna is an interpersonal drama covering social issues intended for young adult audiences. It contains serious themes, such as the abuse of a minor as well as explicit language, drugs, and sex references throughout. This poignant and thought-provoking story follows the life...

Larry Lockridge’s Out of Wedlock is part of the Enigma Quartet series. Jess Freeman has spontaneous eidetic imagery as psychiatrists would call it. He will disconnect and go into a trance for hours to escape reality. He also has terrible nightmares that make him scream...

The Spaceman is a short story and poetry collection by W.B. Edwards. The book opens with The Roadside Diner where an old couple's tryst with altruism goes wrong when they let two teenagers inside their diner on a cold gray morning. A man crashes his...

Bound by Belief looks into the intricate background of how cults work. Raphael Aron introduces the book with an explanation of cults, how they work, and real-life examples. The story revolves around an organization called CultAssist which is managed by Laura, the main character. Raphael...

Turntable: A Modern-Day Arthurian Tale by James L Peters is a literary fiction novel revolving around a man named Grady Barden. Grady left college before his senior year to pursue his dreams of being a professional musician. Now in his thirties and working at a...

It was a nice change to tackle a collection of short stories like those written by W. Royce Adams in Scar Songs: Stories. Once I finished reading these nine tales featuring male protagonists, each one of whom engaged me psychologically and moved me emotionally, I...

Theresa Marie Pfleger is an unusual woman in many ways. As an obstetrician at a Viennese maternity hospital, she is not only one of the first female doctors but she is also greatly revered by her colleagues. Despite creating unique hypotheses regarding the cause of...

Running For Shelter by Suzette Sheft is the story of the author’s grandmother as a young girl raised in Vienna, Austria in the 1930s. At first young Inga Eisinger lives a sheltered life. Her mother is Stella, who enjoys fine art, and nice things....