Trigger warning for brief discussion of suicide. In the years before a cure was available […]
The Third Wife of Faraday House, by B.R. Myers
Emeline Fitzpatrick is desperate to leave her guardians’ home in Halifax, Canada. Not only is […]
The Devil Raises His Own, by Scott Phillips
Scott Phillips takes Bill Ogden, protagonist of Cottonwood, and transports him years and miles away […]
After Oz, by Gordon McAlpine
The end of the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, is a happy one. Dorothy […]
Clark and Division, by Naomi Hirahara
Aki Ito has always looked up to her older sister, Rose. Rose was beautiful. She […]
Case Study, by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Trigger warning for suicide. Graeme Macrae Burnet works his metafictional magic again in Case Study, […]
The Heart in Winter, by Kevin Barry
Late in Kevin Barry’s amazing novel, The Heart in Winter, rumors start to race around […]
House of Shades, by Lianne Dillsworth
Beggars can’t be choosers. Neither can women doctors in 1833, apparently. Protagonist Hester Reeves agrees […]
What They Said About Luisa, by Erika Rummel
In a short note at the beginning of Erika Rummel’s fascinating novel, What They Said […]
The Mirror of Simple Souls, by Aline Kiner
Trigger warning for references to rape. Life for medieval women in Western Europe was supposed […]