Hoping to find a handsome, affluent husband, Fatima—a spinner by trade—joins her father on a trip to several islands in the Middle Sea. On the way to Crete, a violent storm destroys her father’s ship, killing everyone except... Read More

Many authorities label any artwork that has a religious subject “sacred art,” but Titus Burckhardt is different. He posits that art is essentially form, and if the form is borrowed from some type of profane art, the spiritual vision... Read More

There are a variety of ways into the underworld—through a door, across a river, via a hole in the earth—and in nearly every culture brave souls and reluctant victims have paid a visit to this unearthly and ghastly realm. Often... Read More

“We were opposites. I was a towhead blonde with freckles, pallid and plain. Bertie had a body that caused men to walk into walls.” This is a description of Bobbie and Bertie, the two sisters at the heart of “Beach Babies,” one of... Read More

Johnny Verliebt epitomizes the lost boy. Mildly antisocial perpetually detached from those around him attracted to men the central character in Mark Lee Kirchmeier’s three-part short novel is first described sitting in a tree... Read More

Summer vacation for a preteen is a time of innocent freedom, a life without the pressures of dating, without the time constraints imposed by a job, stolen months of pure enjoyment. The author captures the sweet simplicity of these golden... Read More

These poems couple boyhood shenanigans with a spiritual heart, a brilliant mix that the author first established in his award-winning book, Hometown U.S.A., which won the 1992 American Series Award. Since then his poetry has lost neither... Read More

“Some experts contend that as many as 50% of students who experience learning difficulties in school may have some degree of functional vision disorder,” states the author, an occupational therapist with more than thirty-one years of... Read More