Challenge of Choice
Decisions, decisions, decisions…our lives are filled with them. Some are small like what to make for dinner or which TV show to watch tonight. Even small decisions like these can be difficult to make, but they aren’t likely to impact your life over the long term. Others, however, can actually......
Incident at Devil's Finger
A novel that, quite literally, starts off with a Bang! When a parachute stunt by an ambitious performance artist goes wrong, a massive red stone monolith comes crashing down, obliterated on the desert floor. While the authorities scramble to hold someone responsible for this explosive act of sabotag...
Refuge
“Secrets were a way of life in Lubbock. Locked doors kept in as much as they kept out.” Set against the backdrop of post-Roe v. Wade America, Refuge by Bill VanPatten dives into the profound impact of state laws on individual freedoms and explores the complexities of family, prejudice,......
Dialogues With the Wise Woman
That great philosopher and former boxer Mike Tyson said it best: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” Or consider this example. A man is waiting for a train with his wife. Suddenly, another man quickly rushes up to the wife and it appears he might......
2102: Pretense, the Play
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” famously wrote Shakespeare in As You Like It. And in 2102: Pretense, the Play, William E. Jefferson takes this concept to an entirely different level with the strange world of Onglander — a country of the future......
All I Ever Wanted to Be Was an Ad Man
All he ever wanted was to be an ad man. Whoever would have imagined that he would get his first inkling of that career path hiding under the family’s dining room table in suburban London while avoiding the Nazi air raids during World War II? Beneath that sturdy table, supplied......
To Unshakable Bliss: A Techie's Adventure
Truth is almost always harsh, but when offered with clarity and compassion can nurture growth. This is just one example of the kind of insight and wisdom readers will find in Serene Rishi’s philosophical novel, To Unshakable Bliss: A Techie’s Adventure. It looks at the big questions in life —....
An End
Society isn’t the only thing that breaks down in a zombie apocalypse. For survivors, such an event throws deeply held personal beliefs into crisis. In An End, book one of the Where We Stand Now series, author Brandon Pawlicki tackles the aftermath of a world-decimating zombie outbreak with an emot...
Such Stuff as Dreams
“Imagine a string of pearls. Each pearl is a life, yet yon string connects each pearl. We are, ultimately, that string.” Therein is just one piece philosophy from William Shakespeare — or, shall we say, the ghost of William Shakespeare, an apparition who plays a key role in the plot......