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Salvation Day

“The world not as it is, but as it is meant to be.” Author: Kali Wallace The House of Wisdom is half legend, half nightmare. A once mighty exploration vessel, it orbits now in space, abandoned, all its inhabitants dead, the victims of a virus that spread and killed indiscriminately. There was only one survivor – a lone child named Jaswinder Bhattacharya – who was shot into space in an experimental vessel. And he has said nothing all these years. Flashforward ten years. Jas is an adult man now, traveling on a spaceship with his childhood best friend (and would-be lover) [...]

2025-08-17T14:59:44-07:00August 17th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Open Bar

Sexual Abuse, Politics, and Justice Author: Dan Schorr Mountain Hill University has long been a bastion of education and sports, so the entire community is shocked to discover that the university’s star softball coach has been sexually abusing the girls under his care for years. Even worse – the university has known about it and been covering it up. The whistleblower – Serena Stanfield, the human resources director and only one not to know about the incidents and coverup – is now going viral for her meltdown on the pitch. Something will have to be done. Looking to save the university, [...]

2025-08-11T16:48:01-07:00August 11th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

Dead in Long Beach, California

“All humans would eventually try anything to feel more than nothing.” Author: Venita Blackburn I came to Dead in Long Beach, California accidentally, through an Audible sampling that ran automatically after my previous book finished. The sample was only a few minutes, but I was hooked by the dark lyricism and the idea. In Dead in Long Beach, California Coral arrives with groceries at her brother’s apartment to find him dead, the result of suicide. She pockets his cellphone and then, as she devolves into complicated grief, starts answering his messages as though she were him. She talks to his girlfriend. [...]

2025-08-11T10:14:26-07:00August 11th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |
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