Starting Over by Pernell Rogers is an intriguing collection of five short stories featuring women who experience unbelievable and horrific happenings in what begins as quite believable, even ordinary, events in their lives. In each story, we start with relatively ordinary events: a teen helping...

Space, Time, and Loneliness by E. Hughes is a profound and moving poetry chapbook that explores the vast landscapes of human emotion within the context of cosmic existence. Through carefully crafted verses, Hughes examines the nature of isolation, love, and human connection against the...

Short Stories From Faraway Places by Kevin O'Flaherty is a thought-provoking anthology featuring four tales of individuals at pivotal moments in life, where their choices shape their futures. From an impulsive New Yorker in Argentina learning about the Dirty War to an Irishman facing personal...

In Scars of the Heart, Bob Van Laerhoven has taken a most controversial subject and written ten short stories around it. Each story is unique in its own right but the same theme is carried through each one. The author holds the reader’s attention in...

Scaring the Stars into Submission by Adam “Bucho” Rodenberger is a collection of sixteen interrelated short stories for fans of the dystopia, horror, and drama genres. A retiring mortician witnesses puzzling posthumous changes in a young man's body. The red sky, which cannot contain clouds...

Strange Tales and Shadowy Beings from Beyond the Bible by Edward N. Brown is a collection of original short story reboots that are rooted in biblical scripture but come from alternative early Christian texts, extra-canonical books, and gospels. Each story reads perfectly well as a...

Immerse yourself in a lively anthology of short stories and poems with Dima Tsyptsiura's Sheg. This collection touches upon a wide range of humanity's issues through different genres, such as sci-fi, fantasy, and mythology. The book opens with a story about a magician discovering cheese...

The most appealing aspect of the stories featured in Spectrum of Love by Akash Chaudhary is that they are all eminently possible – every scenario depicted in this hopeful and emotionally charged collection is, without a doubt, something that could happen and probably does happen...

A drug syndicate lieutenant named Jason gets lost in the Virginia countryside. On his way, Jason sees an abandoned church, and unpleasant memories about the South overtake him. An uneasy feeling urges Jason to escape, but he misses a turn. A skeptical newspaper editor named...

From closed schools, canceled work deals, spikes in depression and suicides, crumbling economies, and broken family ties and relationships, the devastation caused by COVID-19 attacked societies around the world at their core. Stories Written Along COVID Walls, an anthology by Melissa R. Mendelson, offers a...