I don’t usually review short stories, but this is a nice little piece of surrealism written in a completely realistic style, and I think readers might enjoy it. The premise of the plot is what would happen if those self-help YouTube videos actually worked. What if it was really possible for a person to change…
Month: May 2019
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“The Claiming: The Witches of Hollow Hill Book One” by Glenn Williams
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This is an unusual book, simply because I don’t often find myself telling an author that the action starts too soon. Because most books that start off wrong never manage to fix it. Let me explain. When you are writing a book in the “hero’s journey” format, there are certain conventions that work. The first…
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“The Journals of Incabad Reyl” by Gregory Tasoulas
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Most fantasy writers start a book and create a world in which to place it. A very few spend years creating a fantasy world and finally write a book about it. Gregory Tasoulas is one of the latter. Picture a universe where once every few thousand years the whole basis of the world undergoes a…
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“Lost in a Quatrain” by Adiela Akoo
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This is an anthology of poems, many of them autobiographical in nature, detailing the poet’s inner life, her faith and her reaction to her environment. In total, it is a wonderful mosaic of a thoughtful and feeling life. Individually, the separate poems are of uneven quality. Some of the most successful of these works are…