Short fiction is not hard to come by, but impactful short fiction is. Danila Botha's Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness is a collection of slice-of-life stories around themes of diversity, wonder, and femininity. My favorite story is Don't Look Back. It follows a young artist...

In the year 79 AD, a family was celebrating a union when Mount Vesuvius erupted, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people. However, some members of the family survived and went on to thrive in the distant future, with the help of ancestors like Grandmother Angelina,...

Can a truly good person commit an act of unforgivable evil? Do humans always use their best reasoning skills? Do people always do things that are in their best interest? Bahr Burr considers these questions in Tranquility Bight. Tranquility Bight is one of the many...

The Ill-Fitting Skin by Shannon Robinson is a collection of twelve short stories featuring women navigating extraordinary situations. A mother struggles to control the wild tendencies of her son, a lycanthrope, only to realize they have much in common. A woman gains notoriety when she...

Dragon Springs & Other Things is an eclectic collection of eleven short stories by Raven Oak. Cursed with the ability to feel other people's pain, a detective investigates the murder of a homeless man, who turns out to be someone unexpected. Despite constantly moving houses,...

Immerse yourself in a gripping monster tale with Christopher Flowers' Shackleford Banks Sasquatch. Tom's weekend trip to Crystal Coast in North Carolina turns into a nightmare when he comes across something only known as myth. After Erica, Tom's girlfriend, tells his best friend Michael that...

Immerse yourself in an enthralling collection of loosely connected short stories with The Demise of Madam Ricketts and Other Short Stories. This collection, written by C.D. Hancock, contains interrelated stories set between 1878 and the mid-20th century. An organized fight between a brawler and ten...

Due to the One Child Only mandate, Fen, a Chinese woman, is forced to give her newborn second daughter Ning up for adoption. She does not know what will happen to the child and whether she will be treated well by the adoptive parents. In...

The Pinocchio Chip by Rick Moskovitz is an exciting short story that will turn your perception of the world, people, and emotions upside down from the beginning. The main character is an AI, who has been designed to learn all the aspects of human nature,...

No one can fully appreciate the extent of a dog’s unconditional love for his human playmate unless they have experienced the joys and sorrows of owning a dog, of allowing the dog to be part of their lives for years, a vital member of the...