If you ask an addict why he takes drugs he is likely to say that he likes or enjoys them. To someone who has witnessed an addict’s behavior that may seem astounding even impossible but it’s true. In "The Essentials of Chemical... Read More

Wayne Homza is an ordinary boy unknowingly equipped with extraordinary telekinetic powers. Wayne learns to control his abilities, using them for good as well as evil, but there is an unseen force working against him somewhere in his... Read More

While many people dream of shaking off the dust of the earth by living on their own boat Megan Smith realizes that the “liveaboard” life is not one of continuous sunsets and gently lapping waves. The mystery begins with the discovery... Read More

Everyone at Truman knows the truth about what it’s like to be an eighth grader, but few are willing to shed light on the matter. That is, until Zebby and Amr decide that a Web site would provide the opportunity for Truman to spill its... Read More

Any exciting and fulfilling tennis match includes a broad mix of awe-inspiring shots thrown at the opponent, as well as a variety of pacing from the start to the final point. "Tennis Confidential II" offers all of these things. Readers... Read More

Open warfare, occupation, bombings, militant armed movements, insurgencies, weak central governments, authoritative dictatorships, and millions of average people struggling for survival will greet the forty-fourth President on... Read More

Lia Purpura is an essayist and a poet, who, in either genre, absorbs her subjects with an intensity that ends up mapping the consciousness as closely as it maps the exterior world. In "King Baby", she goes herself one better. The... Read More

Surrealism began almost a century ago as very much a man’s movement, but poets like Brenda Shaughnessy have recently adapted many surrealist techniques for purposes that are distinctly womanly and all their own. "Human Dark with Sugar"... Read More