Richard J. Kendrick brings us clockpunk young adult fantasy in Squawk of the Were-Chicken. Deidre has many 'oops' moments wherein her “thinky” bits have time to catch up. To Deidre, it seems this is all a part of becoming a grown-up. Between her tinkering, going...

Come Quietly by Hermione Lee is a fantasy drama that follows the story of two sisters, Irina and Mallory, who become lost in the woods and find themselves trapped in a mysterious manor. Inside, they discover other children facing the same predicament, each with their...

“Life isn’t necessarily about what happens to you but rather who happens to you.” That is true, and Daren Hatfield's Nothing Ever Happens On Main Street is a reminder that events do not fashion themselves; people create them through their actions. Young Parker Riley is...

Set in a small Michigan town called Cheboygan, this tale follows Aedan and his high school friends Lindsey, Tim, and Mary. An extraordinary and unforeseen change is looming in the air. The teens are preparing to graduate from high school and embrace college life. On...

Time Mansion is a paranormal mystery novella by Laurel Lorenzini. After losing her mother to a freak car accident, seventeen-year-old Toby finds herself unexpectedly having to live with her Aunt Esme after her father goes to Alaska to work. Grieving and feeling abandoned, Toby arrives...

Superficial by Diane Billas is a YA adventure. Lea is visiting a superhero fan convention with her ex-girlfriend and another friend. When she gets stuck in a lift with Jake, Hollywood’s Amazing Boy, she thinks she’s trapped with a stuck-up actor until she realizes he’s...

Collegiate by AP Cleriot is a chilling YA horror story set in the eerie halls of Buchner Collegiate, a high school shrouded in mystery and malevolence. Students are vanishing, their fates unknown, as dark forces lurk in every corner. Sophomore Jason Thomas is largely unaffected...

Adagio for the Fallen is the second installment in the Infernal Symphony series by Maria Giakoumatos. In this gripping young adult horror, sixteen-year-old Luke Reed embarks on a perilous quest to find his missing father, who vanished during a paranormal investigation at an abandoned church....

No Hope for Haunted by L. E. Anchor is an evocative and immersive exploration of the human spirit, blending dark fantasy with deep spiritual allegory. The story follows Haunted, a character wrestling with inner demons and external threats in a surreal world filled with prowlers,...

Forever Boy by Michael J. Bowler is an engaging and imaginative tale that quickly immerses the reader into a mysterious world. It opens with Isaac meeting a strange boy named Drágan, whose unique presence and peculiarities hint at something beyond the ordinary. The storytelling feels...