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Thumbs up... Author:  Paul Samuel Dolman Maybe you’ve never had the good fortune to set foot on Martha’s Vineyard, the 100 square miles of East Coast island paradise just south of Cape Cod.  Me neither.  Home to the secluded vacation retreats of the rich and famous, “The Vineyard” is known for its quaint small town sensibility, lovely beaches, pleasant weather and eccentric residents.  A few years ago, miserable due to a bevy of existential mid-life crises, music producer Paul Samuel Dolman spent the summer at his elderly parents’ cabin on the island, biking, swimming, ruminating and eating too many donuts.  [...]

Classic Creepers Editors: Robert Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg 100 Creepy Little Creature Stories is one of the few short story collections that has been able to entice my long-fiction preferring brain; purchasing this little treasury back in 2006, feeling that really, I ought to try some short fiction, I’ve since been steadily, although slowly, returning to this book, even re-reading certain short stories and forcing friends, family, and once a graduate class, into reading one of the stories I discovered. While my usual fast reading style has me polishing off a novel a week, and I’ve been returning to and [...]

Follow Your Dreams By: Lisa Brunette Cathedral (alias as Cat) McCormick is leaving her St. Louis home to apprentice for her new-age Granny Grace’s detective firm. Despite her mother’s jealousy and the continual yoga exercises dictated by the vivacious and yet dreamy Granny Grace, Cat is certain that this new path is the one she must literally follow to her dreams. Like Granny Grace, Cat has been born with the gift (or the curse) of entering into the dreams of nearby sleepers, an excellent way to unravel the mysteries of the heart and also to destroy close attachments; Cat must [...]