REVIEW Flash fiction is a relatively new genre of writing, usually limited to somewhere between 200 and 1,000 words. Mr. Millman has written a collection of these and put them in one slim volume for our enjoyment. It contains about 60 stories of a length from three pages down to not much longer than the […]
“Always Gray in Winter” by Mark J. Engels
REVIEW Often reviewers and editors have to tell an author that the book started too soon. As in, there was a whole lot of stuff at the beginning that should have been cut out before the real story started. This book is the opposite. Part way through I went back and checked to see if […]
“Lingering” by Melissa Simonson
REVIEW This is a story about grief. Everyone experiences the loss of a loved one differently, but we all go through grief in the same stages. Except Ben. He takes the rape and murder of his fiancée badly, unable to let her go. And then, one day as he sits by her grave, a woman […]
Ambassador 1: Seeing Red by Patti Jansen
I went looking for a fun read the other day, and got a free novel from Amazon. Expecting the usual free-first-book-of-the-series potboiler, I was happily mistaken. “Seeing Red” is a full-scale stand-alone Sci-Fi novel in the traditional sense. Alien power politics, mental telepathy, fantastic weapons, and high-quality world-building. Cory Wilson, the main character, is a […]