For Abe Dubinski and his family, life on the canal is both peaceful and productive. Employed as a lock tender, Abe is responsible for the safe passage of barges carrying anthracite from Pennsylvania to New York. When the canal company announces its plan to close the canal in 1933, Abe worries about his job and his company home. Still, in his heart, he knows that his family will be okay. But the peace is shattered when a Nazi youth camp opens on the banks of the canal. Under the direction o...

Cassie O’Malley is back in a Christmas mystery that will keep you laughing and guessing until the final showdown. At odds with her new boss, tabloid reporter Cassie O’Malley finds herself covering the shopping mall at Christmas. Cassie wants nothing to do with the assignment. Then Big Mack turns up dead in the men’s room, his throat slit.

Issue Nº21 features:A new "Lewis" novella by Nick PetrieA curated collection of short fiction including stories by Reed Farrel Coleman, Art Taylor, Alan Orloff, Sharon Hunt, Albert Kanach, and Jeff Markowitz.Essays, Interviews and Reviews by Heather Levy, Zakariah Johnson, and Dale Davis.Art and Photography by Arturo Arvizu, Kseniia Nikitina, and Bade Fuwa.This issue also features a preview of the new graphic novel "Where The Body Was" by award-winni...

A must-read for anyone who makes business decisions that have a major financial impact.As the recent collapse on Wall Street shows, we are often ill-equipped to deal with uncertainty and risk. Yet every day we base our personal and business plans on uncertainties, whether they be next month’s sales, next year’s costs, or tomorrow’s stock price. In The Flaw of Averages, Sam Savageknown for his creative exposition of difficult subjects describes common avoid...