by BlogEditor | Jul 11, 2023 | Fiction
A TALL GLASS OF LEMONADE ON A HOT DAY By Cindy Knoebel FollowFollowFollow The burly sheriff, pressed uniform the color of gravy, knocks on the frame of the tattered screen door. “Mrs. Ordwell?” Cups a hand around his eyes, squints into the interior gloom. A basket of...
by BlogEditor | Jul 6, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
DOGGED by Marty Kingsbury FollowFollowFollow In my 71 years of life, I’ve known lots of pain: scrapes and stitches and broken bones. Pinched sciatica. Bone spurs. Headaches that drum my skull. But this one was different. This one was hard to figure out. It started on...
by BlogEditor | Jun 26, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
Jesus Is Delicious by Monica J. Casper FollowFollowFollow I was small when my mom and my sister, and I left a drafty old house in coal country for Chicago. We had tickets to Bozo’s Circus, which we’d only ever seen on TV. My dad had let us make the six-hour journey...
by BlogEditor | Jun 21, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
Lipstick by Norma Schafer FollowFollowFollow The tube is gold and metallic blue, scratched, tarnished, and well-worn. The removeable gold top has ridges with the raised edges now silvery, signs of its aging. I can still faintly read Estee Lauder stamped on the...
by BlogEditor | Jun 14, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
Dinner for Two Lovely People by Tracy Harris FollowFollowFollow You can tell when a binge is about to happen. Just as the sky darkens and the air grows thick with moisture before a thunderstorm, a binge starts with warning signs. Unlike a thunderstorm, however, a...
by BlogEditor | Jun 7, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
Glimpses by Anne E. Beall FollowFollowFollow A few months ago, I looked up and realized you were walking along the sidewalk in front of me. You walked as if you weren’t sure of yourself—not convinced you had a solid place on this earth. Your backpack had...
by BlogEditor | May 31, 2023 | Book Reviews
Contrapasso by Alexandra Fössinger FollowFollowFollow Contrapasso (poetry)by Alexandra Fössinger 2022 by Cephalopress Ltd13$USD/paperback plus shipping from Amazon978-1-8382206-2-4 Book Review by Anna Cavouras Italian poetess Alexandra Fössinger brings her perceptive...
by BlogEditor | May 25, 2023 | Book Reviews
But She is Also Jane by Laura Read FollowFollowFollow But She is Also Janeby Laura Read University of Massachusetts PressApril 28, 2023$16.959781625347145 Book Review by Abby N. Lewis Laura Read explores the microaggressions of sexism and the ripples caused by a...
by BlogEditor | May 19, 2023 | Book Reviews
To Rule the Desert by Monica Robinson FollowFollowFollow To Rule the Desertby Monica Robinson 2023 Published Independently$16ISBN: 9798362019624 Book Review by Violet James McMaster (she/they) I met Monica Robinson (@corvus.et.liber) through one of my favorite...
by Web Designer | May 16, 2023 | News & Events
Book Development Webinar FollowFollowFollow We will be hosting a book development information webinar on Monday, June 5, at 7:30pm EST. Learn how you can move your work-in-the process to a published book. Our executive editor, Kim Brown will discuss how our editors...
