One day. One moment in time. That’s all it takes for a tragedy, a sorrow that will seep through the soul of a child forever. The memories that fill this tiny space of eternity are enough to make the reader weep for the child who...

Teenaged Anti-Socialite: Unwanted Attention by Alexis Tiger is the first story in a short story series. High school student Kara Landers is an introvert and has no friends by choice. She finds social interaction pointless and tries to avoid it at all costs. Unfortunately for...

Volume 2 of Unfit Magazine, edited by Daniel Scott White, features nine new short stories from a variety of science fiction authors, including Cat Rambo, Ken Liu, Tim Major and Yoon Ha Lee. The collection of stories featured in this volume focuses on the realms...

Art in the late nineteenth century underwent many transitions as artists, most notably in France, strove to make their own mark on the world, to create a new style of expression that was completely their own. As the artistic geniuses of the time painted, argued...

I Put Pants on for This? Stories in Defense of Staying Home is a collection of humorous short stories written by Jackson Banks. The author begins his narratives of funny stories masquerading as fiction (but often containing massive chunks of reality) with a description of...

Bubble Off Plumb is an anthology collection of short stories edited by KG Finfrock, Sarah Kalin and Dan M. Kalin, and contributed to by a whole collection of other authors – Marie Brennan, David Tallerman and E.E. King, to name but a few. The tales...

“These short stories touch upon human virtues and vices, identity, alternative universes, space travel, philosophy, death and afterlife, and much more.” In Money Tree, a man dealing with financial hardship discovers a surprising source of wealth that will influence him to make both good and...

Emerald Rose by Jennifer Sharp is a short romantic story. Emerald and Sam have been friends forever; Sam is a baker and Emerald runs her own antique shop left to her by her parents after their deaths in a Valentine’s Day accident. Now it’s a...

Jendi Reiter’s An Incomplete List of My Wishes comprises several Southern tales (specifically, the state of Georgia) amongst others, some set in the Reagan era of the 1980s, as well as others in the '90s. Important as the South is, however, it really serves as...

An eye for an eye? Edgar and two other young men have only just joined the prince’s parish at Arterbury Castle as novice curates. Within a day tragedy strikes; not once but twice. Two people are dead, but the prince, summoned to pass judgement, deems...