Category Archives: Fiction

Trampling in the Land of Woe – William Galaini

Posted on August 25, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) “Perhaps Hell is a place where you’re surrounded with thousands of others that feel as lost as you die, but nobody speaks of it”, he muttered to the dead Yitz on his back, then grunted at … Continue reading →

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Quest for Kriya – Rahul Deokar

Posted on August 23, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Her aroma engulfed him, enticing him to stay. A few seconds seemed like an eternity, but still not enough. Strangers that they were, they stood lost in each other anyway, holding their longing gaze for some … Continue reading →

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Disillusioned – Christy Barritt

Posted on August 20, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Nikki Wright is desperately looking for help for her traumatised brother, who escaped from a detainment camp run by terrorists in Colombia and is now undergoing  an extreme case of PTSD. Or is it really the … Continue reading →

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Beat the Rain – Nigel Jay Cooper

Posted on August 12, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “It scarcely seems possible that they’ve settled back into ordinary life…Painful, gut-wrenching normal life, killing them bit by bit as the seconds tick by….Life disappears behind them in a trail of sameness, the lies and unsaid … Continue reading →

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Friendly Fire- John Gilstrap

Posted on August 5, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) In a fit of rage and as an act of vengeance, Barista boy Ethan Falk stabs a customer to death. On his arrest, he tells an eleven year old implausible story of kidnap and molestation where … Continue reading →

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Deception Island – Brynn Kelly

Posted on July 29, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) A kidnapped son. A soldier with a haunted and tainted past. A cornered con woman looking to leave her past behind. A deadly game that has head, heart and lives at stake. The happiest days for … Continue reading →

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Outsider in Amsterdam (Amsterdam Cops) – Janwillem Van De Wetering

Posted on July 26, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “ “Papuans…He saw the wild men from the early ages who once populated the swamp that, now, today, was called Holland.” Today in 1970’s Amsterdam, most have learned about these people from the Dutch colony of … Continue reading →

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Someone Must Die – Sharon Potts

Posted on July 21, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Aubrey Lynd has always lived her life in blessed ignorance, clinging to the illusion of a protective bubble wrap. And then, her nephew is kidnapped from the middle of a carnival while he was with his … Continue reading →

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Warning Order: A Search and Destroy Thriller – Joshua Hood

Posted on July 14, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) War on terror has never been more serious or terrifying, when Mason Kane – special ops personnel with a questionable past–finds himself trapped in the middle of a plot that seems to involve intelligent minds from … Continue reading →

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Shadowboxing With Bukowski – Darrell Kastin

Posted on July 11, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “The universe shrank daily around me, the bookstore itself was the center, the black hole, the very bottomless hell that would consume me in the end. ..the bookstore was insatiable, a structure of otherworldly forces. It … Continue reading →

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