June 16, 2026
In Marilee Dahlman’s humorous novel, Mall Goddess, a woman’s desire to pursue her art runs adrift when the rundown mall that houses her makeshift studio faces closure.
Kylie Kaiser is not your typical mall-goer. For 20 years, she has served as custodian of the dilapidated mall in her economically depressed Iowa hometown. She patrols the […]
January 13, 2026
In his epic saga of a culinary endeavor, Today I Ate a Biscuit, author Justin M. Davis explores in great detail every aspect of thinking about, preparing for, assembling, consuming a solitary biscuit, as well as and the assessment of the experience afterward. And then, after much reflection and inner debate, he does it all […]
September 16, 2025
Former MGM assistant Christine Stringer draws on personal experience for this delightful novel blending nostalgia for the 1990s, chick lit, and red-carpet Hollywood.
Charity Trickett is killing it as assistant to the director of the year’s biggest blockbuster film, even if her love life just blew up. So when she’s invited to LA to finish […]
August 5, 2025
Adam Bertocci’s novel is a theological fantasy about a directionless 20-something woman who, unknowingly, is tasked with saving humanity from annihilation.
Bristol Volavaunt – in “the autumn of her twenties” – isn’t exactly living an idyllic life: She’s a struggling artist who lives above a pet store in a run-down apartment with her roommate, a […]
April 8, 2025
Cleave the Sparrow, by Jonathan Katz, is a smart and funny futuristic geopolitical thriller woven from psychedelic threads of philosophy and physics.
Tom’s life has recently gotten weird. One day he’s a small town reporter, the next he’s been seduced into a doomsday cult by Shelly, a battered bombshell whose explosive sexuality and capacity for […]
February 4, 2025
The Usefulness of Hippopotamus is a collection of free-verse poems that span many topics and often end with wry twists.
Vincent J. Tomeo’s collection includes real-world encounters, surreal incidents, poems about poetry, and more. Its subtitle explains its purpose: to find humor in trying situations, which can range from troublesome toenails to romantic love.
In […]
April 23, 2024
Stephen Evans’ novella, written in the style of a play, follows Paula and James as they search for the perfect wedding gift.
The couple receives a wedding invitation from a mysterious “Cousin Angela,” to whom neither of them recalls being related. After some argument, they decide to attend the event anyway. Then comes the debate […]
March 19, 2024
Andy Lazris imagines a future where the country controls its citizens through a perpetual state of fabricated medical crises in his dystopian novel, Adventures in the Biostate.
Three years after the Covid-19 pandemic, another deadly virus struck the U.S. Over the ensuing two decades, biostatistician Mic Medicine, who had worked with Dr. Anthony Fauci during […]
March 12, 2024
Ron Chandler’s Madcap Dogs, a collection of 14 short stories, depicts the lives of dogs and the people responsible for their care.
The first story, “Ain’t No Fence High Enough,” is narrated by a Greyhound known in the beginning only as “dumb” or some variation thereof. After he places fourth in a race and injures […]
November 14, 2023
In this tale, a traveler equivocates about whether to accept an all-expenses paid trip with his family, then must deal with the questions arising from his decision.
As the story opens, Darren Dallavalle is returning from Africa where he took a raft trip from Victoria Falls down the Zambezi River, then traveled to Mozambique and […]