Punk music exploded onto the scene in the late 1970s, shocking the world with its abrasive and often discordant music, anarchistic fashion statements, and angry message of youthful protest against the existing order. The epicenter of this new movement spread from London to New York,...

Darker Seuss: Extra Grim Fairy Tales of Even Grimmer Existence by Dr. Matthew McKeague is a hilariously arresting collection of five short stories that will both entertain readers and provoke them to think about life. This is a perfect collection of five stories told in...

Tales of the supernatural have always fascinated readers, and famous authors who have written in this genre include Mary Shelley, Washington Irving, H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King and many others. Dream Lover and Other Tales by RjCook follows admirably in this tradition, although most of his...

Random Word Stories: Volume 1 is a collection of short stories written by Eli Goldfarb. Throughout this book the author chooses a single word, defines it, and writes a story based around it. This provides the perfect opportunity for an author to show their diversity,...

Parallels: Felix Was Here by various authors, under the banner of the Insecure Writers Support Group, contains ten well-presented science fiction stories, starting with Felix Was Here by L.G. Keltner, in which a young woman living in a closed community questions the reality and validity...

Time is for Dragonflies and Angels by J.M. Erickson is a beautiful offering for fans of sci-fi and fantasy who are also into short stories and novellas. The collection features powerful themes, including parallel universes, man’s struggle to come to grips with his human predicament,...

I undertook this review with a degree of trepidation. Having read sci-fi collections previously, I had found some of the stories so oblique as to be virtually unintelligible. To my delight, however, Tales From The Universe turned out to be a collection of excellent stories,...

Flight of Destiny is an anthology of short stories by Francis H. Powell. This collection features many characters who find themselves in unforeseen situations that often test their sanity. “Only a mother could love a child like this,” and she does display her true affections...

Creepy, Funny & Just Plain Weird: Stories and Poems for Kids is written by Maranda Russell. Detective Schnauzer takes on the saucy case of the Killer Meatballs! Hiccup has a few odd remedies to cure yours. The poem Dessert Heaven will have you craving for...

Dabbling in Crime: Death of a Violinist and Other Stories is an intriguing and fascinating collection of short stories by Shelly Reuben. The collection starts with the story of a young violinist, a prodigy aptly named by the narrator (a New York cop) as Dante...