Each year, more than fifteen thousand children in the US are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. In that moment, their lives—and their parents’ lives—are changed forever. Diabetes affects all organ systems and can cause blindness, loss... Read More

Anyone who’s been in a traffic jam for even a few minutes can feel the effects of a stress level surge, but what happens when that edginess and tension linger throughout the day? Author Paul Huljich (Betrayal of Love and Freedom) knows... Read More

Photojournalist Piero Ribelli came to the United States from Italy in 1985, with a love for Jack Kerouac and The Doors and a longing to make a fresh start. As a new American citizen, he set off on an epic cross-country journey and logged... Read More

"The Ephemeris" by William Jay is a unique and artistic work with aspects modeled on the styles of the Renaissance and the classical Greek era. With a plot line that seems to be modeled on Homer’s Odyssey, it opens as a merchant... Read More

“I have been watching your country … and have to admit that in many respects you are perfect … What a person of culture cannot endure is that you live without heart, without the salt and sense of life.” So complains Gulliver,... Read More

Freelance writer and editor Laura Barcella has capitalized on the whole 2012 mythos with this compilation of fifty pop-culture items (books, films, music, TV series, art and comic books among them) which have the end of the world as... Read More

In Heather Fowler’s second short fiction collection, People With Holes, the nexus of each story is a hole of some sort, whether literal or figurative. Mixing erotica and magical realism in several of the stories, Fowler explores the... Read More

Set in Beaufort, South Carolina, near the Sea Islands, and titled for the local concept of “dayclean”—the promising moment just before sunrise—this warm-hearted mystery featuring a fusion of cultures and dialects avows the... Read More