Debra is posing for a graduate picture with a distinguished older man. Her friend, Brian, approaches and introduces himself to the man he believes to be Debra’s father. He goes on and on about how proud this man must be of Debra’s accomplishments, only to...

The Doctor’s Dilemma: Short Stories by Daly Walker is a magnificent collection of stories about the vicissitudes of life and death as seen through the eyes of various physicians. Readers of the best works of literature will cherish these pieces. Mr. Walker is among the...

Without any fuss, Flash Fiction Stories of the Sea drops readers into murky waters. Sometimes serene, often turbulent. Three Chilean servicemen were in a boat hunting seals. The real reason they were out there was to discuss how to divide the millions they stole from...

Parchment paper made out of music manuscripts. A harmonica jazz musician who played with the best. Two concert violinists that escaped certain death during the Holocaust. Over 6,000 carol singers in West Reading, Pennsylvania singing Christmas carols to cheer a young girl dying of leukemia....

Flash Fiction for the Religiously Inclined by Theodore Jerome Cohen and his pseudonym Alyssa Devine is a collection of very short pieces submitted to a flash fiction contest. In the competition, the writer is prompted by a photograph and a sentence to be used somewhere...

Tales from the Aether by Matthew Woodruff, a collection of 14 bizarre and thought-provoking short stories, will make you question your conditioned reality. What if the world is not how you have always perceived it to be? Imagine waking up in a strange, darkened room....

A Shadowy Realm of the Imagination that Defies Reality, the subtitle of the book, aptly describes the theme of Tales From the Gray Area by Curtis Stephen Burdick. The seven novellas stimulate readers with extraordinary tales of aliens, reincarnation, new species, hell, and whatnot! These...

Sweet Delights is a collection of 14 short romances presented by PL Harris. Each story is by a different author, and all are in response to the prompt of love stories centered around baked sweets. And each of these tales is a sweet in itself....

Grunts, Gramps, and Tanks: A Soldier's Tales by Rick Bogdan spans many years of the main character's time in the army. Following the life of a man named Tyler Willett, we see his surprise choice to enlist, the struggles his marriage went through as a...

“This framework of bone protruded against his olive complexion like a demon attempting to escape its elastic cage.” This impeccably written simile demonstrates the incredible level of creative intelligence and literary skill one finds in the superb collection of short stories authored by James Musgrave...