“My mother was a slave named Violet4264. I’d always wanted to see where she’d carved her life in stone.” So says Porkpie early on in “C-Rock City,” a tale that looks at an issue as old as humanity itself: slavery. Part of the... Read More

Americans have a long and divided history concerning legal recreational drugs. The twin vices of tobacco and alcohol, paired in the public mind, have lead to a deep cultural divide. Along the fault line created by these substances are... Read More

Is the absence of a few wrinkles worth dying for? A couple in south Florida learned the answer the hard way. Kaplan and his wife Bonnie are upset with themselves, the government, and the doctors they trusted to make good choices, not... Read More

When Karolina Staszek shows up in Phillip Landau’s Manhattan law office one rainy afternoon in 1967 claiming to be his long-lost cousin—who was thought to have been killed during the Holocaust more than twenty years earlier—Phillip... Read More

Ambitious and prize-winning chefs from the finer eateries of Latvia’s capitol city Riga present an appealing array of tradition-based and international cuisine framed by Collins’ text detailing astrological concepts. The Baltic... Read More

Mike Alexander is a young Silicon Valley account executive who spends much of his free time chatting on the Internet. To SFJEREME and SILKLADY and his other friends in cyberspace he is SJMIKEE—an open-minded fun-loving guy who has gone... Read More

There have been so many get-rich-quick schemes and self-help gurus exploiting people in the history of the world making their fortunes off the poor and down-trodden that Jesus Christ is even on record speaking against the parasites when... Read More

“Fred began to think more and more about the sadness of slavery…she [Mrs. Auld] started much of his misery. If she hadn’t begun to teach him how to read, he wouldn’t know what he was missing.” So begins the activism of... Read More