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• Dark tale hides shimmer of hope

  By Editor on May 5, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Review: The Last Shimmer, Sage Hyatt Not Your Father’s Bedtime Stories, 20 pages Editing “The Last Shimmer” with Sage was such a fun and rewarding project. As her father, I am proud of her for many reasons, but especially because… Read More ›

• CEO demonstrates app’s ‘Outrage’ meter

  By Editor on March 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  PITTSBURGH – Those slights, abuses, and crimes that often go unreported can now be witnessed and judged by anyone with a swipe on their device. Chatter, a downloadable app designed for ‘concerned citizens, neighborhood gadflies, and social-justice heroes,’ launched this… Read More ›

• Brain-damaged hockey star resists The People’s justice

  By Editor on March 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Book Review: Outrage Level 10, Lucy Leitner Necro Publications, 328 pages Horror, in my opinion, takes itself too seriously. In the non-stop, adrenaline-pounding quest to put readers on edge, the genre often fails to move beyond its time-honored tropes around… Read More ›

• ‘Pow!’ soda disrupts consumers’ reality

  By Editor on March 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Interview with Lee Matthew Goldberg, author of Orange City Growing up, I enjoyed orange soda and feared spiders, and both feature prominently in Lee Matthew Goldberg’s first science-fiction novel, Orange City, which offers a second chance for felons and outcasts… Read More ›

• Shirking duty leads deputy to rosy hell of disappointment

  By Editor on February 19, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Book Review: Captain Clive’s Dreamworld Jon Bassoff, Eraserhead Press, 234 pages Early in Deputy Sam Hardy’s adulthood, he marries a woman he loves, they have a daughter they are too poor to support, so they give her up for adoption…. Read More ›

• Bar soap helps users ‘escape’ constraints of pandemic lifestyle

  By Editor on February 1, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  LOS ANGELES – As COVID-19 continues in its second year to plague the world’s population, a pleasant-smelling hand soap is selling faster than it can be supplied to consumers due to their claims that it ‘teleports’ them to faraway places… Read More ›

• Name your favorite bands!

  By Editor on January 30, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Book review: Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil, Grove Press, 448 pages It’s time for a music test. Name your top-five rock bands. Here are mine: The Rolling Stones The Velvet Underground… Read More ›

• Thread of optimism weaves tales of climate heroes

  By Editor on January 19, 2021

  

  Book Review: Ten Journeys on a Fragile Planet Rod Taylor, Odyssey Books, 284 pages The assault to the environment currently underway by global warming continues to have noticeable impact on Los Angeles, where I live, in which blazes surrounding the… Read More ›

• There’s no business like show business

  By Editor on December 4, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Book Review: Out of Frame Anthologies Jack Lothian, S.J. Sims, Rhiannon Robertson, Sarah Witt Oneiric Roper, John Morgan Risner, 179 pages Living in Los Angeles, I witness no shortage of artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, and other creatives whose eccentric tendencies and… Read More ›

• Mystical science to transform barren planet to paradise

  By Editor on November 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Book Review: Dune Frank Herbert, ACE, 884 pages For science-fiction fans, Frank Herbert’s Dune was often introduced during a high school or college English class. For anyone with an interest in the fate of humanity, the 900-page tome became required… Read More ›