A unique voice resonates from the pages of "Colors Written on a Lily Pad," by author Ivy Brown. The poems written in this collection move just as fluidly from page to page, like lily pads are attached by a common vine. The end poem of this beautiful work is sure to delight as a fish struggles to be with the one loved, a flower.

Mr. Lotman is a collection of dark short stories guaranteed to haunt you. In it... A catfish becomes legend, A girl goes missing, And a man visits a haunted Victorian house. Every story in this collection is very different. In the first story, Infinity, the author uses artistic license by choosing not to capitalize the lines of the child speaking, and instead sides with a lowercase format adaptively showing the age of the character. This whimsical stylistic device technique is similar to how Emily Dickinson used unique punctuation to creatively express her poetry which was uncommon at the...