Category: Literature & Fiction

On a rail platform at shift change, three authorities arrive with the same demand in different forms: the east booth prints it on blue stock, the upper office speaks it through a voice, and the passage authority sends a runner with a lacquered baton and no paper at all. They want the Car. They want the civic credential. They want the recorder. Car 404 sits on the platform with forty-three people waiting for onward care, a disputed count, and not enough water for another day. The crew can move t... [Read More...]

A phone call tells Oliver his best friend Zack is dead. The story returns to the twenty-five years that brought them to that night, tracing Oliver’s life from Detroit to Chicago to Phoenix through secrecy, unstable relationships, and a friendship strained by addiction. A queer literary novel about guilt, loyalty, survival, and the cost of leaving someone when they need you most. Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

After losing his wife to a drunk driver, Ed Gideon wants nothing to do with the family responsible. Then he meets the driver’s fifteen-year-old daughter, abandoned and desperate for help. Pulled between grief, anger, compassion, and unexpected love, Ed must decide whether healing is possible without forgiveness. Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Award-winning contemporary poetry that stirs and swirls with emotion like being swept up in the waves of a flood. Words flow across the page like water flows down a stream. Rain, thunderstorms, hail, and hurricanes. Inside you will find five great seas of emotion: sorrow, wrath, fear, love, and dreams. Features unique illustrations hand drawn by the author. Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

The Pet Therapist – Curious Cases brings together five warm, thoughtful, and quietly humorous stories about animals, people, and the complicated bonds between them. Harold and Sophie run a small consulting business where families seek help with pet-related problems — though the real issue is often something far bigger than the animal itself. A dog slowly moves in with the neighbors. A snake grows larger through rumor and fear. An aging elephant becomes a question of memory and value. A prou... [Read More...]

DAUGHTER DAYS spans Julia Wendell’s entire career as a poet writing poems to and about her daughter. Poems selected from her previous six books are combined with newer poems, as well as excerpts from her memoirs, Finding My Distance and Come to the X. With this scope, forty years of writing poems for her daughter are telescoped in this compilation of new and selected poems. $7.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

With stunning lyricism, Gajarah tells the story of a fearless woman torn between two worlds—Pakistan and Canada—whose life is upended by sexual violence. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]