As the third entry in the Elemental Witch League trilogy, The Fog raises the stakes to biblical proportions, opening with Satan and the Nephilim unleashing a supernatural “end-of-days” weapon meant to drown the world in terror and death. From there, the novel widens fast—into a globe-spanning, good-versus-evil conflict where a young “Fundamental Witch,” Susan, and her …
Veteran educator and author Margaret Stenerson announces the release of two powerful books that shine a light on the transformative power of knowledge, curiosity, and lifelong learning: My Noble Profession (Third Edition) and The Joy of Knowing: Everyday Wonders and Science Stories. Together, these titles offer a heartfelt tribute to teaching as a calling, and …
The Jesus Trail: Following in the Footsteps of Christ by Pierce Kelley is a deeply moving and contemplative novel that follows sixteen-year-old Mekhaeil Zacharias, a Coptic Christian, as he undertakes a pilgrimage from Nazareth through the Galilee to Jerusalem. Still reeling from the horrific murder of his two older brothers and nineteen other Coptic Christians …
I think I reported on the Sora app when it launched back in October. The app, which enables users to access OpenAI’s Sora generative AI platform on their phones to create short video clips, hit the headlines back then for two reasons. In one of the starkest “there’s good news and bad news” stories yet …
This illustrated feast frames Fire Island not simply as a queer sanctuary, but as an incubator of queer style across the 20th century. Dempsey, president of the Fire Island Pines Historical Society, is an engaging guide to a vibrant history: Readers learn that Oscar Wilde is said to have visited in Cherry Grove in 1882; …
When 12-year-old Julia Pemberton vanishes from a classmate’s birthday party on a sweltering August day in 1985, the citizens of the small town of Chatham, North Carolina, band together to find her. Julia’s athletic best friend, Dell Jenkins, becomes haunted by how little she remembers about the day that Julia vanished, while Julia’s father, Tommy, …
“The authors of these articles all have day jobs,” writes Doti in his preface. “Somehow, some way, they carved out enough time to experience and then record their adventures, pushing against the boundaries that often constrain the range of life’s offerings.” The contributors—Scott Chapman, Ryan Dahlem, Adam Doti, Lynne Doti, Daniele Struppa, and Dan Temianka—recount …
The best part of Callie McFee’s post-work evening run is chatting with Barney, an unhoused man who always sits on the same park bench on her route. Thanks to her brother, State, a local homicide detective, she’s one of the first people to hear the tragic news of her friend’s fatal shooting. Just as shocking …
In the opening story, “Christmas Holiday, 1945,” a veteran returning home to Chicago after Germany’s surrender prepares to meet the wife he hasn’t seen in two years. Upon arriving in America, he visits his sister, Edith, a nun who’s about to embark on a missionary voyage to China. In “The Visit,” a man named Rob …
First published: Feb 13, 2014 Back in 2014, self-published science fiction and fantasy author, Michael La Ronn, wrote a short post for the Alliance of Independent Authors about a genre he had recently adopted: Interactive Fiction. This was at a… The post Writing Interactive Fiction appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
A violent entity attempts to kill her by possessing anyone Egyptian American Mina is alone with. To protect her friends and family, Mina cuts them off without explanation, retreating as she searches for a solution. The only person who seems to understand what she’s facing is Jesse Talbot, her reclusive classmate and neighbor, who presents …
For the past two years, Driver X has been the getaway driver for the Tiger Syndicate. When he was younger, all he could think about was being a racer and winning glory, but chasing his dreams and going against his father’s wishes led to X getting into a major accident. Now, his family thinks he’s …
Every Western historian knows the name of Frederick Jackson Turner, who, in 1893, declared that the American frontier was closed. (It was just a year after Wounded Knee, after all, pretty well the closing shots of the American Indian Wars.) No one remembers Turner’s wife, Mae. Granted that she figures only slightly in Nelson’s narrative, …