More than anything else, Cindi wants a playmate for Christmas – the four-legged, furry kind. That and snow. But how can she tell everyone what she wants? After all, she is a dog. She decides she must do what human children do and ask Santa...

Is Rani really just an astrophysicist? Socially awkward, but brilliant and beautiful, is there more to her than meets the eye? On the verge of taking a much-needed vacation to Greece, Rani starts hearing voices. It’s not the first time, but this is the most...

Following her father’s death, Fran has brought his ashes back to his hometown of Banff, Scotland. Numb with grief, she is unable to find peace and barely manages to cope. However, a brief visit to a small cafe with an outlandish name might be the...

Reading Holiday Shorts: Flash Fiction is like dipping into a Christmas stocking. Each story is a tasty morsel, easy to digest, and makes you eager to reach for the next. Barbara Venkataraman takes on the usual suspects of the holiday season and gives each the...

Elysia Lumen Strife pens frost and fire in Christmas in Montana. “Life isn’t always going to be what you want. It’s going to be what you make of it.” Orion McNalley loves her family and hometown in Montana. Yet, she secretly dreams of a Hawaiian...

T.B. Marshall's Marley and the Transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge is a spin on the classic story, A Christmas Carol. Marshall tells the story from Jacob Marley's point of view with a desire to help teach Scrooge the importance of charity and humanity towards others. The...

The village of Hawarden in Saskatchewan (Canada) is almost a ghost town. But every Halloween it comes to life again, as the local high school becomes a haunted place to visit, complete with a werewolf, zombies, Frankenstein and other historic people returned to the world...

Would you ever consider breaking into a nursing home for a few good nights' sleep and some hearty meals? Well, homeless John Lester thought it would be a good idea. It was winter; cold and only going to get colder. After studying the comings and...

Paige Porter wants to find just the right guy to model the new line of western clothes for her latest client. And she has finally convinced this client that it needs to be a cowboy. So Paige, along with her sister, is headed off to the...

A Bazaar Christmas by Timothy R. Baldwin is a novella that brings a mystery amid a Christmas fundraiser. The grand prize of the silent auction has gone missing in the chaos of shutting down the booths. Marcus and Alissa are always on hand to help...