“One day I tried to add up how many people I killed,” muses the main character in Walt Williams’s "White Lion", an intense and exciting story of a Vietnam War scout-sniper turned mercenary who eventually finds peace as an... Read More

“We are not an invasion fleet. We are a procurement team.” That is how the alien invaders, who arrive not as overt conquerors but as clandestine suppliers seeking human meat for a galactic restaurant chain, introduce themselves in... Read More

“Nothing is prettier and at the same time more deadly than Napalm,” writes Richard Carl Wieburg, a US Army lieutenant in Vietnam in 1968, who spent a truly terrifying year as “the leader of a mercenary squad, run by the CIA.”... Read More

It is no mean feat to craft a fantasy world that is different, familiar, interesting, and fresh. Gregory S. Close has done that and more with In Siege of Daylight: Book One in the Compendium of Light, Dark & Shadow, a weighty and... Read More

Just in time for the emergence of billions of cicadas from their seventeen-year gestation, Long Island native Michael Phillip Cash has prepared a Twilight Zone-like horror story of biblical proportions. Although more than half of the... Read More

Murder by evisceration is never pretty, but in "The Organ Donor", Cory Jason Wright thankfully reins in his pen, preferring to let the reader’s mind fill in the bloody details rather than drown his audience in descriptive gore. While... Read More

With characters who are “as grumpy as a baby cutting teeth” and who openly admit, “I hate that parakeet,” Jose Maria Rodriguez’s slim collection of six short stories makes for a quick, charming read for those who enjoy... Read More

Mike Middleton’s quiet, simple science fiction novel with an environmental message is guardedly positive and hopeful, yet it also has undertones of a cautionary tale related to humanity’s abuse of a planet it has taken for granted.... Read More