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When the Wolf Comes Home

“Love is a shape-shifting monster . . .a werewolf with a bottomless stomach.” Author: Nat Cassidy At the end of her work shift, Jess accidentally stabs her hand with a needle left in a vomit spattered bathroom. Now, her mind is calculating all the horrifying possibilities, frantically searching through Google, trying to find out if it’s too late to see a doctor. In the middle of her panic, she meets a young boy, hiding outside her apartment in the woods. She saves the boy from his naked, malevolent father and then, shortly thereafter, from a powerful attack on the complex by a [...]

2025-11-24T13:16:28-07:00November 24th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

The S Word: A Memoir About Secrets

Secrets. Silence. Standing Alone. Author: Paolina Milana S stands for secrets. For silence. For sin. For schizophrenia. For sinister. For standing alone. In this memoir, Paolina Milana documents her childhood and teen years, growing up in a chaotic family, dedicated to taking care of Paolina’s increasingly schizophrenic and often violent mother. The father of the family is overwhelmed, and after a brief adventure with the unhelpful medical system – even bringing the police into the ruse to institutionalize Paolina’s mother – the family caves to fear and secrecy. They are on their own, shunned, struggling, trying to keep a secret that [...]

2025-05-08T09:35:06-07:00May 8th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |

Darling Girls

Chosen Sisters Author: Sally Hepworth Some families are biological. Some families are found. Some are created by trauma. The latter is true for Jessica, Norah, and Alicia. Each of them underwent a horrific experience at Wild Meadows where their unpredictable foster mother, Miss Fairchild, oscillated between cloying dependence and ruthless revenge. When Miss Fairchild directed her vitriol towards a new toddler, the girls decided to risk losing each other and report her. They thought it ended there. They were taken from Wild Meadows, raised separately, yet somehow able to keep their connections with one another. They presumed the toddler had been [...]

2024-09-14T21:47:58-07:00September 14th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |
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