Joan Opyr’s novel, Shaken and Stirred (Bywater Books), has a familiar premise: A young woman with a dysfunctional and sometimes...
Young adult fiction has come a ways since the blonde-haired, blue-eyed yesterdays of Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High and the...
I was 15 years old in the summer of 1969, the summer Woodstock happened: Jimi Hendrix’s scorching “Star-Spangled Banner” sliding...
Flash fiction. Like lightning, it’s a brief illumination, the sky of your mind brightened with an image that, at its...
You’ve heard the story before, right? Second generation immigrant from [insert country] works twice as hard to fulfill his parents’...
In Leaving L.A., author Kate Christie introduces Eleanor Chapin, who put her plans to become a child psychologist on hold...
The connection you share with another person, however brief or seemingly insignificant, can leave a lasting impression, if not with...
Gay horror continues to mature as a genre with quality writing, established authors, and heart pounding tales. Though horror often...
The first chapter of Jameson Currier’s new novel, The Third Buddha (Chelsea Station Editions), begins with a Chelsea dinner party...
For many, many years, Scandavian artist Tove Jansson’s internationally popular children’s books, the Moomin books, included the biography that Jansson...
