Katie L. Mary’s dystopian novel The Golden Cage features Sansera’s system of grading women according to their beauty. The book is divided into three parts with alternating viewpoints from several major characters. In the first section, the six-year-old girls are brought to the institute, which...

Kimberly Sullivan's short story collection Drink Wine and Be Beautiful opens with Amica Del Cuore, a tale about a young American woman in Rome finding a friendship that will last a lifetime. A woman finally finds the peace and the contentment she has been looking...

What Is Wrong With Me? by Kristin Hammoud tells the story of a young woman who learns to confront her own life choices. This remarkable story begins with Anna Ward’s early memories. It shows why Anna, at only nine years old, wishes that her parents...

Beyond The Headlights by Allan Davis is a slice-of-life drama story that follows a musical savant's coming-of-age story. Since she was four years old, Aiyana has been able to play Chopin without ever listening to his music. Despite having a learning disability, Aiyana's synesthesia gives...

Rough sex, strip dancing, terrifying orgies, drugs, torture, and submission is the only life Danika Wheeler, alias Jezebel, has known ever since they took her and her little sister away. Nine years now under her pervert captors, Danika knows enough about their evil organization and...

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...