Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Cole McGinnis is an ex-cop turned PI. Kim Jae-Min is a man with a dirty little secret, one shared by his cousin - past tense - because now Jae's cousin is dead, and it's beginning to look a little less like suicide and a lot more like murder. Enter the down and dirty world of... Continue Reading →
Cole McGinnis is an ex-cop turned PI. Kim Jae-Min is a man with a dirty little secret, one shared by his cousin - past tense - because now Jae's cousin is dead, and it's beginning to look a little less like suicide and a lot more like murder. Enter the down and dirty world of... Continue Reading →
“Suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.” – Cyril Connolly Getting a glimpse at the residents of Jasper Lane was a bit like peeking into the windows of a museum for the artfully deranged, and the scrim of Eric Arvin’s screwball suburbia is in the curb appeal that has nothing to do with manicured lawns... Continue Reading →
“Suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.” – Cyril Connolly Getting a glimpse at the residents of Jasper Lane was a bit like peeking into the windows of a museum for the artfully deranged, and the scrim of Eric Arvin’s screwball suburbia is in the curb appeal that has nothing to do with manicured lawns... Continue Reading →
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Havelock Ellis Drew MacAuliffe knows there’s a fine line between courage and cowardice: the courage in giving rise to a strength you didn’t know you possessed, in spite of your fears; the cowardice in the submission to those... Continue Reading →
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Havelock Ellis Drew MacAuliffe knows there’s a fine line between courage and cowardice: the courage in giving rise to a strength you didn’t know you possessed, in spite of your fears; the cowardice in the submission to those... Continue Reading →
“'Tis very true, my grief lies all within; And these external manners of laments Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.” – William Shakespeare The casualties of war are not only the poor and unfortunate souls whose lives bleed out on the battlefield. There are times that... Continue Reading →
“'Tis very true, my grief lies all within; And these external manners of laments Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.” – William Shakespeare The casualties of war are not only the poor and unfortunate souls whose lives bleed out on the battlefield. There are times that... Continue Reading →
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu Mourning Heaven is a story of bigotry in a small California town, where three boys will come of age but only two will survive the burning animosity aimed at them for their sins. It is a story... Continue Reading →
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu Mourning Heaven is a story of bigotry in a small California town, where three boys will come of age but only two will survive the burning animosity aimed at them for their sins. It is a story... Continue Reading →
“Love is not finding someone you can live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without.” – Unknown Carson Cress is the most invisible man on the Everson University campus. That’s not to say everyone doesn’t see the gorgeous star quarterback destined for the NFL, though. It’s to say that no one sees Carson as... Continue Reading →
“Love is not finding someone you can live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without.” – Unknown Carson Cress is the most invisible man on the Everson University campus. That’s not to say everyone doesn’t see the gorgeous star quarterback destined for the NFL, though. It’s to say that no one sees Carson as... Continue Reading →
"Where there is great love, there are also miracles." - Willa Sibert Cather Loving Luki Vasquez has always been pretty easy for me. For that matter, loving Sonny Bly James has been a non-effort too, because of their strength, because of the way they've fought courageously to get where they are, because now, six years... Continue Reading →
"Where there is great love, there are also miracles." - Willa Sibert Cather Loving Luki Vasquez has always been pretty easy for me. For that matter, loving Sonny Bly James has been a non-effort too, because of their strength, because of the way they've fought courageously to get where they are, because now, six years... Continue Reading →
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.” – Ernest Hemingway Jamie Samms’ Stained Glass is an emotionally turbulent story of survival, the story of Lawrence McKenna, a man who in the hands of the wrong Dom discovers that he is a... Continue Reading →
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.” – Ernest Hemingway Jamie Samms’ Stained Glass is an emotionally turbulent story of survival, the story of Lawrence McKenna, a man who in the hands of the wrong Dom discovers that he is a... Continue Reading →
“The people choose to call me a hero. I don’t think what I do is heroic. It’s just doing what’s right for those who are worse off than you.” – Icarus Sean Kennedy’s Wings of Equity is a cleverly steampunked tale filled with airships and flying trains, amazing machines and advanced technology, in a world... Continue Reading →
“The people choose to call me a hero. I don’t think what I do is heroic. It’s just doing what’s right for those who are worse off than you.” – Icarus Sean Kennedy’s Wings of Equity is a cleverly steampunked tale filled with airships and flying trains, amazing machines and advanced technology, in a world... Continue Reading →
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Arthur Baldwin Oscar Wilde once said, “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Well, Jayden Walker and Graham “Gristle” Thistle may not live in the literal gutter, but... Continue Reading →
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Arthur Baldwin Oscar Wilde once said, “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Well, Jayden Walker and Graham “Gristle” Thistle may not live in the literal gutter, but... Continue Reading →
“The Fates lead him who will. Him who won't they drag.” – Seneca The Fates, the Moirai, the Three Witches, the Weird Sisters—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Sometimes they are portrayed as the girl, the woman, and the crone, three separate and distinct entities of female evolution; though at times they’re also portrayed as a single... Continue Reading →
“The Fates lead him who will. Him who won't they drag.” – Seneca The Fates, the Moirai, the Three Witches, the Weird Sisters—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Sometimes they are portrayed as the girl, the woman, and the crone, three separate and distinct entities of female evolution; though at times they’re also portrayed as a single... Continue Reading →
How is one supposed to find the words to review a book in which the author has already exhausted (Vin might love the irony of that x in such a lethargic word) all the most brilliant words in the English language to tell his story? Come to think of it, Vin might like the word... Continue Reading →
How is one supposed to find the words to review a book in which the author has already exhausted (Vin might love the irony of that x in such a lethargic word) all the most brilliant words in the English language to tell his story? Come to think of it, Vin might like the word... Continue Reading →
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