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  • 9/10 9/11

    I thought I might say something or write some profound post, but it looks like most of the words have been said already . . .  so I wrote anyway, if only to pin down the turmoil of my thoughts.  Our enemy, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.…

  • Specters in the Glass House

    By Jaime Jo Wright Knives Out meets The Great Gatsby! Rhemy Crenshaw had been in the foster system since an arsonist took the lives of her family. Determined not to be another statistic, she shoves aside her past trauma and pours her energy into her new job: research assistant to the famed biographer Elton Floyd.…

  • The Broken Weathervane

    By Laura DeNooyer This story started out straight-forward enough, but turned into an absolute tangled knot – to the point where I wasn’t even sure how it was going to end! 1950s: The Buckwalter Brothers Grocery Store is a Wisconsin small-town family success story. Run by brothers August, Fritz, and Edmund, everything appears ideal on…

  • The Friday Review: Glen Eyrie

    5th Friday, time for a different kind of review! In case you missed it, in the beginning of August, me and two of my writer friends did a mini writer’s retreat at Glen Eyrie in Colorado Springs. We absolutely loved it there and plan on going back. I highly recommend Glen Eyrie if you’re looking…

  • The Friday Review: A Fierce Devotion

    By Laura Frantz One of the few things that made the end of my vacation tolerable was the knowledge that this novella was waiting for me back home. I binge read almost all of it in one afternoon! Gabrielle Farrow has two years left on her indenture when Indians attack the frontier tavern where she…

  • The Friday Review: Toxic Empathy

    By Allie Beth Stuckey Everywhere you look, there is controversy. The lines between right and wrong are blurred. As members of a Christian society, we are told we need to love and have compassion. But how much love and compassion is too much? At what point do we cross the line between loving the sinner…

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