"I’m afraid. I think I’m going mad. I heard the Weaver this morning when I woke up and it spoke to me, but I was awake. Is it real? It asked me to ‘embrace’ it. I’m scared. Maybe I can forget about the Weaver, then...

Snapshots: A Collection of Short Stories, written by Eliot Parker, contains a fascinating set of stories. With settings in large cities and small towns, in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, each story is distinctly unique. Some stories are tinged with magical realism, while others are...

Andro, A Knight of Tenby by Ronnda Eileen Henry takes the reader back to medieval times to the mysterious island of Penruddock. Andro Erhard was just eight years old when he was orphaned and sent to live with his grandparents. His heart was bitter over...

Sweet Temperaments by Tonwand North is a sweet office romance between two men who wanted different things from life, but they had no idea that they needed each other more than anything else. Lewis Fraser is a simple man with simple needs. He needs love...

Spring in Lilac Glen by Angie Ellington is a cheerful and joyous shorter novel that will delight her readers. Julianne (Jules) Baker is a successful photographer living in New York. But her dreams and paychecks are not as fulfilling as she had expected when she...

Please Forgive Us, Richard Hauptmann is the title story in an eclectic collection from the pen of Wendy Lewis, a collection which opens with a tale prompted by her stay in Wellington, New Zealand in the late 1990s, combining a wry look at the city’s...

Masters of Murder by Eagle Monsoon is a disturbing compendium of stories that deal with murder, including a father who murders someone just because he hurt him in a rugby game and goes on to tell the story to his child: “I didn’t want him...

Justina has moved into her new dorm room and she’s settled into her classes. With all the course work, she hardly pays attention to the mysterious antique mirror left behind in her room. That is until the elaborate jewel embedded in the frame starts glowing...

The Baron’s Ward is a short story written by Isabella Berdyna Zysk. Eighteen-year-old Eustacia Rose travels to Galeva to visit her relative, the Baron of Galeva, whom she hasn’t seen in years. She wonders why he hadn’t replied to the letters she wrote while attending...

The Lover and Interpreter of Human Oddities: A Novella by Anthony Labriola is the story of a man who loves to discover human oddities and tries to find a way to interpret them. Dr. Clive Wango is an eccentric man and he knows it. He...