ALISSA YARBROUGH

A "Super" Short Story (6 Min Read) Tasha has made a new man out of me. And I'd die to regret it. I exit the Bugatti under the radiance of a full moon and spring up the flagstone steps leading to the simple, even cottage-like house compared with the mansion I'd driven from. Modest yet elegant. All attributes drawn from the gentle hands managing the unpretentious property. The Japanese Maple, sprouting from the red garden mulch, is reviving from the state the previous owner had

Our society is a visually controlled one, saturated with cinema and flashy videos in order to maintain our shortening attention spans. I'm seeing the same drift in fiction, a molding of the writing to keep up with the dopamine in the action-packed movies. We are showing all right, but along the same vein, we're going overboard in describing every detail as we would see in a motion picture.

Daylight may be failing in this latter part of the year, however, I’m still burning the proverbial midnight oil in scratching my head, learning, and forever recalibrating my path-to-publishing with new information. But here's where you can help...

Dani Pettrey is a new author to me, so when I decided to give her books a try, One Wrong Move instantly jumped out at me. I mean, it’s about a former burglar-now security system expert called in to solve a string of art gallery heists.

My parents taught me that in most instances, you stick to Christian fiction or classics that usually have some form of morals. It wasn’t an iron rule, and as I think about it now, it makes perfect sense.

Nearly everyone enjoys a smidgen of romance in their entertainment, be it cinema or literature. Why, it's hard to find a storyline that doesn't include a happy ending between a guy and a girl, even if the plot focuses on something else entirely.