reviews

The Trauma of Menstruation Author: Walter Greatshell Lulu and her mother live in their own little world – eating out, sleeping in, and stalking the guy who might be Lulu’s father. It’s sort of squalid and sort of idealistic. Meanwhile, the two women miss out on the apocalypse, which has come and gone, seemingly without them. You see, a virulent something sneaked out of a laboratory – Agent X – and is turning menstruating women into blue-skinned monsters or xombies. Lulu and her mom may be late to the party, but Agent X gets everyone in the end . . . [...]

Good Twin, Bad Twin Author: Rose Carlyle Summer is the good twin, the blessed twin. She got married to the perfect man, has the best and cutest little step-son, is wealthy, and owns her sister’s beloved yacht, Bathsheba. Iris is the bad twin: jealous, focused on her father’s legacy, resentful, removed from a broken marriage, driven by ambition and revenge. The girls’ relationship was always complicated, but when their father died and announced in his will that his entire 100 million dollar empire will go to his first child who marries and conceives (and the man has seven children across two [...]

A Poignant Story About Starting Again Author: Jamie Beck Annie Sullivan did everything she was supposed to do, yet her husband left her for a younger woman. She doesn’t know how to step outside of the role of wife and mother now – or what happened to cause her to fail at both. She gave up her burgeoning career as an artist when she married her college boyfriend and had her first and only child, Katy. She did what she thought was right, but with her husband already ensconced with his fiancé – and the divorce isn’t even final yet – [...]