A couple experiences the futility and horror of trying to outrun their problems in Dennis Mahoney’s horror novel "Our Winter Monster". Holly and Brian rumble toward a ski resort to salvage their scattered partnership. A blizzard is on... Read More

The spirit of perseverance is given wings in Aaron Gwyn’s touching coming-of-age novella, "The Cannibal Owl". Levi was raised in the rough-and-tumble Arkansas territory in the first decades of the nineteenth century. His unexpected... Read More

The traumas and triumphs of a former Mormon’s coming-out story are given theatrical accouterments in AJ Romriell’s memoir "Wolf Act". Ensconced in the ruse of a screenplay, the memoir recounts Romriell’s arduous Mormon upbringing.... Read More

Concentrated on deceptions, doublespeak, and rhetorical loop-de-loops, "The Epic of Chakramire" is an ambitious prose poem whose characters reveal their truths in thick, captivating verses. The evolutions of life on Earth, technology,... Read More

In the rollicking postmodern novel "The Bargain Shopper", a cynical blue blood of reduced means waxes philosophical on the state of America. The tribulations, manifestos, and introspection of an aging, technology-adverse narcissist frame... Read More

Love, against all odds, emerges as the prevailing factor of a space colonization mission’s success in the satirical science fiction novel "Tripping Toward Mars". An international race to reach and colonize Mars is backdropped by... Read More

"Those We Carry" is a tragic, triumphant novel about wartime love. Perseverance despite a tragic past leads a budding hero into the horrors and humility of World War II, and eventually to love, in Scott Saxberg’s novel "Those We... Read More

The malaise of a small New England town in the 1960s is given an undercurrent of the infinite in Peter Selgin’s inspired novel A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space. Half is a junior high school student with a mentally ill stepbrother, a hat... Read More