Podcasting is an enormous industry, reportedly bringing in over $7 billion of revenue in 2024. Podcasts are not only ...

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On the eve of World War II, a motley crew intent on reconnecting with the past motors out to a former hospital for servicemen from the Great War, where two impossible crimes will abruptly diminish ...

Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is Culpability by Bruce Holsinger.

A one-two punch of grindhouse horror from one of the craft’s most inventive practitioners.

An existence of pleasingly dull normality is upended when a gastropod becomes a creature of the night. Bob lives an uneventful snail life until one evening, after a series of sounds—a scream, three ...

When you sit down to write a story, sometimes the hardest part can be just getting started. After all, the beginning of a tale ...

A psychotherapist transforms an account of personal trauma into a soulful guide to healing, self-acceptance, and spiritual growth.

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Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

In Marriott’s mystery sequel, a retired homicide detective reluctantly investigates a murder in Greece.

Wycoff, a self-described “white-skinned” kid whose mother was white and father was Black, writes that he’s always lived an “identity-confused life.” Raised in the predominantly Black, 29-acre housing ...