Fiction

Most people don’t know what lies beneath the streets of New York City; but the author of Dracula Unmasked, A Journey Through Time (Richlife) certainly does. Pamela J. Rauch’s vampire story takes a creative turn when a European vampire decides to make his home underneath the New York Public Library. Utilizing abandoned book vaults, Dracula spawns the next generation of undead servants, who prey on unsuspecting New Yorkers. “When I sat down to write this […]

The year is 1974. Boston’s Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood under siege. The banks have redlined the neighborhood, causing the housing market to crash, wiping out local homeowner’s lifetime investments and opening the neighborhood to blockbusters and slumlords.In Redlined (Adelaide Books), someone is systematically torching abandoned buildings and the charred body of Sandy Morgan, a dedicated young neighborhood organizer, has been found among the ashes. Lead community organizer and Marine combat veteran Jedediah Flynt, hired […]

Robert Krieger’s life is quickly falling apart. He’s been fired from his job, split with his sexy girlfriend, and has a controlling overbearing mother he feels obligated to call at least once a week. As a result, he’s developed a distressing anxiety disorder. Robert lends money to an acquaintance across the hall in his building, a small-time drug dealer named Skids. When Skids is later assaulted by enforcers working for an inner-city drug gang, the […]

Leonardo’s Handwriting (Glagoslav) is a romantic moral tale, with an unconventional woman at its heart. Nature has given Anna the gift of clairvoyance. It is this that determines her singular fate. The characteristic “left-handed mirror handwriting,” which in psychology came to be known as “Leonardo’s handwriting” (since that’s how the Renaissance genius wrote his notes), simply adds to the weirdness both of Anna’s personality and the twists and turns of the novel. Is the divine […]

In 2019, the idea of political resistance is becoming more and more familiar. Complacency, it seems, is a thing of the past. Or is it? The writer Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy weaponized the fairytales she created, seeding her stories with subversion. From ABC News Net, Australia: D’Aulnoy lived in a punishing patriarchy: women couldn’t work or inherit money, and were forbidden from marrying for love. Through her work, she showed an alternative. “She subversively wrote against some […]

From Here to There (Adelaide Books) by Patty Somlo begins: “A plane suddenly disappears from the radar and no one knows where it has gone. The initial assumption is that terrorists must be responsible. From that point, story travels elsewhere: having coffee with a group of Iraqi immigrants working as drivers, a hospital emergency room where the sick and injured wait for help that never seems to come, the unique candidacy of a governor whose […]

Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty aren’t the only fairy tales in the world, but they tend to steal most of the glory. It’s time to let others shine for a change. Sixteen talented authors each put their own spin on different fairy tales that you won’t find in animated films. Trade your pining fairhaired princesses for fire fairies, conquistadors, plucky young men named Jack, and a fisherman’s daughter. You won’t see too many castles […]