Fiction
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Two Nights in Berlin
by Patricia McDermott
“She always felt her mother was in some ways ‘borrowed’ from another country and culture, that she had an early life she never shared with her family.” When Anna travels to Berlin to scatter her mother’s ashes on the grave of her Jewish fiancé...
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The Missing Frame
by Eli Lazar
One bag. Five rolls of film filled with grief. One chance to develop what’s left of love. For Liz Ferguson, grief arrived on a Tuesday, disguised as a camera bag. Shattered by the sudden death of Leo—her best friend and almost something more—Liz...
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Embracing Agency
Debut Collection of Flash Fiction / Fables & Poetry by Joyce Martin Perz
"Embracing Agency" invites readers to experience a moment in the life of a stranger. How will they deal with a situation they can't avoid? - Tell the truth or lie - Stay or leave - Assert themselves or be compliant A good read. These short...
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An Extraordinary Lady Ahead Of Her Time
by Beth Carol Solomon
A new chapter begins for Francine Marsowe when she enters medical school, eager to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a psychiatrist. Her life seems perfectly on track—she’s excelling in her studies, making new friends, and maintaining a...
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A Time to Live
by Mary Burton Horne
Except for the baby stirring in her belly, Beth had never felt so utterly alone. Unmarried, pregnant by her fiancé—a World War II soldier who was killed in action before he ever learned he would be a father, and disowned by her parents, her...
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No Duppy in Our House
by Judy Fairbanks
In 1895, in the Dry Harbour Mountains of Jamaica, Emma Whorms lives a comfortable life with her carpenter husband and two young sons. Quite unconventional for her time, she is a contented mother and wife who serves her family and the Catholic...
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The Dreadful Round Up
by Rylee Lascelle
“Death’s on its way to this town and there’s nothing we can do to stop it.” It’s October 1st in Cowboy Cauldron, a dying Prairie town where it seems like you can’t turn over a rock without something sinister popping out, and there’s a month-long...
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BEAUTY BETRAYAL
how she survived it and flourished by Gail Laws
Casey Fenton’s life was practically perfect. At just forty-five years old, she had already taken a single aesthetics salon and built it up into Makeup Centres International (MCI), a publicly traded, multimillion-dollar enterprise, of which she...
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Beginnings
by Michelle Perkins
When artist and barista Elena Evert wakes up in the hospital after collapsing in the street, her biggest fear is that they won’t let her leave—a fear that is quickly realized as she finds herself being transferred to the hospital’s psychiatric...
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The Chronosceptre
by Steven W. Truelove
The seal weakens. The Arcanus stirs. Elrith and his companions race to recover the final Element Artifacts, the only hope of sealing the Nexus and halting Soleena’s ascent into godlike tyranny. From cursed islands and collapsing sanctuaries to a...