Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. – Mahatma Gandhi I am the new kid on the block here, and in preparation for Wilde City Press Week, I was asked to review Moral Authority by Jacob Z Flores. Now, I will be honest and... Continue Reading →
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. – Mahatma Gandhi I am the new kid on the block here, and in preparation for Wilde City Press Week, I was asked to review Moral Authority by Jacob Z Flores. Now, I will be honest and... Continue Reading →
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? – Sherlock Holmes, “The Sign of the Four” Before August Brandon became an agent with the Canadian Supernatural Investigation Team, he was a wizard-in-training who nearly didn’t survive his education for reasons that... Continue Reading →
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? – Sherlock Holmes, “The Sign of the Four” Before August Brandon became an agent with the Canadian Supernatural Investigation Team, he was a wizard-in-training who nearly didn’t survive his education for reasons that... Continue Reading →
And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles. ― Frances Hodgson Burnett Hilary Kent has something Tom Laurence very much wants—his garden. But it’s not just any garden Tom’s after; it’s the centuries-old physic garden planted by a priest called Thaddeus who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, some four-hundred years before,... Continue Reading →
And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles. ― Frances Hodgson Burnett Hilary Kent has something Tom Laurence very much wants—his garden. But it’s not just any garden Tom’s after; it’s the centuries-old physic garden planted by a priest called Thaddeus who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, some four-hundred years before,... Continue Reading →
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse de Lamartine Mountain Memories is a sweet story with some great twists and turns. We have Jax the concert pianist and composer. Then we have Mason, the park ranger with the National Park Service. Jax is running away from a broken... Continue Reading →
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse de Lamartine Mountain Memories is a sweet story with some great twists and turns. We have Jax the concert pianist and composer. Then we have Mason, the park ranger with the National Park Service. Jax is running away from a broken... Continue Reading →
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. ― Neil Gaiman August Ferrell and his high school basketball team are playing in the North Dakota Class A basketball tournament, and this one’s for all the marbles because August is a senior, so there are not more... Continue Reading →
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. ― Neil Gaiman August Ferrell and his high school basketball team are playing in the North Dakota Class A basketball tournament, and this one’s for all the marbles because August is a senior, so there are not more... Continue Reading →
Love is blind and thinks that others don’t see either. – Danish Proverb Flexibility is Maja Rose’s second contribution so far this year to Dreamspinner Press’s Daily Dose Anthologies. Her previous story Made Good Under Pressure was featured in DSP’s “Closet Capers” anthology. In Flexibility, we meet a pair of Olympic Men’s Gymnastics hopefuls. Jared... Continue Reading →
Love is blind and thinks that others don’t see either. – Danish Proverb Flexibility is Maja Rose’s second contribution so far this year to Dreamspinner Press’s Daily Dose Anthologies. Her previous story Made Good Under Pressure was featured in DSP’s “Closet Capers” anthology. In Flexibility, we meet a pair of Olympic Men’s Gymnastics hopefuls. Jared... Continue Reading →
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ― Sophocles Goose bumps and tears. That’s what this book gave me, goose bumps and tears. Pretty nifty, that, I think, because it means an author has not only written a story that has provoked an emotional response but... Continue Reading →
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ― Sophocles Goose bumps and tears. That’s what this book gave me, goose bumps and tears. Pretty nifty, that, I think, because it means an author has not only written a story that has provoked an emotional response but... Continue Reading →
What's past is prologue. -- William Shakespeare I went into this book with great expectations for our boys Ty & Zane. After reading Stars & Stripes, I figured we were all good and the boys were on the right track, ya know? So as I sit down and start reading, I found myself in this... Continue Reading →
What's past is prologue. -- William Shakespeare I went into this book with great expectations for our boys Ty & Zane. After reading Stars & Stripes, I figured we were all good and the boys were on the right track, ya know? So as I sit down and start reading, I found myself in this... Continue Reading →
It isn't possible to love and part ... I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. – E.M. Forster There’s nothing you might expect and everything you might imagine in Keira Andrews and Leta Blake’s Ascending Hearts, the story of a man named Jack who, by virtue of his red hair... Continue Reading →
It isn't possible to love and part ... I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. – E.M. Forster There’s nothing you might expect and everything you might imagine in Keira Andrews and Leta Blake’s Ascending Hearts, the story of a man named Jack who, by virtue of his red hair... Continue Reading →
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. – Rabindranath Tagore Dr. Percival Whyborne and Griffin Flaherty have settled into their home and a life together; or are as settled as they can be, given the nature of their relationship and their need for discretion. Life in... Continue Reading →
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. – Rabindranath Tagore Dr. Percival Whyborne and Griffin Flaherty have settled into their home and a life together; or are as settled as they can be, given the nature of their relationship and their need for discretion. Life in... Continue Reading →
My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story. ― Johnny Depp Keegan Andrews’ life has just turned the corner from bad to how-much-more-can-a-man-take? He’s just buried the cousin who was like a brother to him; then, to add insult to an already weeping wound, his long-time girlfriend has ditched him at the... Continue Reading →
My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story. ― Johnny Depp Keegan Andrews’ life has just turned the corner from bad to how-much-more-can-a-man-take? He’s just buried the cousin who was like a brother to him; then, to add insult to an already weeping wound, his long-time girlfriend has ditched him at the... Continue Reading →
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine. – Song of Solomon If you’ve thought about picking up Finding Jackie and have prepared yourself to watch Luki Vasquez and Sonny Bly James stroll off into a sedate life of wedded bliss…yeah, you might want to rethink that. Don’t get me wrong, though; the bliss... Continue Reading →
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine. – Song of Solomon If you’ve thought about picking up Finding Jackie and have prepared yourself to watch Luki Vasquez and Sonny Bly James stroll off into a sedate life of wedded bliss…yeah, you might want to rethink that. Don’t get me wrong, though; the bliss... Continue Reading →
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