The Secret of the Smiling Rock Man by Joe Cappello is a collection of 14 short stories that readers will enjoy. All the stories are built around characters his father used to describe as having “rocks in their heads,” people who refuse to settle for...

Cassian Dolton’s They Were Torn Asunder follows 11701, a twenty-five-year-old coal miner in the Rénlèi Republic, where the state placement test decides each citizen’s occupation and social standing. Unable to read, 11701 saves for her two annual days of leave so she can retake the...

Ian Page’s The Naked Ambition follows Isabella Towers, a thirty-four-year-old production engineer recruited for a senior role at Sandhurst Oil, a private oil company ruled by aging war veterans and old habits. Her interview begins as a test of technical merit, but the founder known...

The Art of Being Let Go by Amulya Veldanda Vadali aims to comfort anyone who has ever lost their job. After an hour's drive to the office, a tired, hardworking woman is told she is being let go. She is given a generic layoff speech...

Lou Powers unleashes an exciting, globe-trotting farce following Jimmy Eyebrow, a catastrophically inept “budget hitman” living under the witness relocation program as Max Von Steel in The Full Package. Jimmy’s disastrous adventures start when he attempts to launch a murder-for-hire business, complete with pearl-finish business...

That McKenzie Girl by Jesse Gordon is a fun, lighthearted, slice-of-life story. Twenty-one-year-old Victor Navarro lives with his best friend, a gamer who livestreams in his underwear, called Brand. Victor isn't at a great stage in life, but Brand needs him—he's in free fall after...

The Infernal Twins: A Series of Divine Miscommunications by Steve Goldsmith is the tale of two immortal twins tasked with keeping track of everything there was, is, and will be. Styx and Stonez are the twin sons of Satan. In the afterlife, their father has...

The Final Storm by M. A. Thorne is a story about hope, second chances, and moving forward. Depressed and desolate, Joe hates his job at the toilet paper factory, and he hates his life even more. Looking forward to a pint at The Black Dog...

The last words twenty-four-year-old Delilah heard from her mother were, “Go to Hell.” Despite their strained relationship, Delilah never thought her mother meant it literally. After being trampled to death by a horse, Delilah wakes up to the sight of a building that could pass...

Jane Dougherty did not expect housesitting for her cousin, Elizabeth, to go awry in Two Hours To Bedlam, a Route 66 Mystery by J.G. Macdonald. Yet, she finds herself in a mystery far deeper than expected. When a body is discovered in a sulfur pond,...