Positively Literary

Good Humor by John Whittier Treat Michael remembered watching his mother Betty from a distance, as if she wasn’t his mother at all but somehow a...

The Underground Woman: From Prisoner to Freedom by Asha Molock CreateSpace Reviewed by T.J. Banks Alice isn’t the only one to tumble down a rabbit hole and find...

Never Forget Your First by Paul A. Aguilar On June 5, 1981, just two weeks before my high school graduation and my eighteenth birthday, the CDC...

Traveling with Bill by Paul J. Partuzo Bill is trying to buy a bike. A girl’s bike because it is easier to get on and off....

Diary of a Modern Consumptive In his new book, author & advocate Paul Thorn shares his personal experience surviving Multidrug Resistant TB by Alina Oswald On September...

30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor by Karen Gedney, MD DRG Consulting LLC Reviewed by John Francis Leonard It’s 1987 and in this gripping, true-life...

Mustang Ray by Michael E. Sawan I’m not one for beautiful days, so take it on faith that this one was a real peach. The type...

Bohemian Rhapsody Directed by Bryan Singer Twentieth-Century Fox Reviewed by Alina Oswald Many years ago, as a kid, I discovered the music of Queen, while listening to my...

Seeking Connections Why bother with short stories about HIV/AIDS? by Raymond Luczak Poetry, due to its power wielded by concision, may be the heart of all literary...

1985 Written & directed by Yen Tan MuseLessMime Productions/Cranium Entertainment Reviewed by John Francis Leonard 1985 is a film about secrets—the secrets we think we’re hiding, but are...