The Quivering Pen

      “The finger-talking gathering welcomes you, friend.”           from “Ether” by Zhang Ran Zhang Ran’s story in the Watchlist a...

—Meet Rebecca Barry: mother, writer, wife, self-distracting procrastinator who makes clay cats and mermaids instead of working on her nov...

      The company was called FicShare. The idea behind it was that people could use the content on their Kindles or iPads that their fr...

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.  (This week, I'm going to b...

      Buildings talk. That’s the cool thing about them in case you don’t live in an apartment. It’s true: maybe I don’t really know an...

Congratulations to Christine Neuman , winner of last week's Friday Freebie: Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life b...

      When the incidents start, my husband decides that what our neighborhood needs is a Neighborhood Watch. "We need to watch our...

Front Porch Books is a monthly tally of books--mainly advance review copies (aka "uncorrected proofs" and "galleys")...

     The president’s coma had taken a turn for the worse: she was dead.           from “Drone” by Miles Klee And with that, we'r...

     When the cell phone tower suddenly materialized opposite our street, I told anyone who would listen that it was an interceptor, set...

     And something was already wrong with Tower No. 4. Unlike the others it moved so much in heavy weather or even in a good strong wind...