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“I just wanted to see what was simply hidden by their shame.  I just wanted to see what they did when the forces of the social world weren’t constraining them.”

Brendan Cox’s Left Unspoken is not your everyday novella.  When Raymond “Ray” Cobley was six years old he learned that his parents agreed to have everything he says recorded.  The transcript won’t be read until after Raymond’s death.   In return, a certain amount of money will be deposited each week into an account for Ray.   Every word he utters over his entire lifetime will be written down.    Can you imagine […]

Blue Fall: The Tournament: Volume One is B.B. Griffith’s first novel.  I am always a little hesitant to read someone’s first novel as one doesn’t know what to expect.  However, the book’s description intrigued me:

There was a time…long ago, when whole nations, entire races of people, pinned their hopes and futures on individual warriors. Whole wars were won and lost on the outcome of a single battle between heroes. Entire countries were moved. Empires rose and fell…”

In Blue Fall, that time has come again.

A routine investigation throws a hapless insurance agent down the rabbit hole, into