The Last Night on Earth by Victor Davis is a dystopian short story. David and Kara live in New York City, but not the New York City that you and I know. This is a city set in the future, a city that is barely...

The Flying Kite by Victor A. Davis is a story within a story. Parts of this story were inspired by true events. The author read a National Geographic magazine article about a man who planned to walk south from the South American Andes to the...

The Dog Called Hitler by Walerian Domanski is a collection of short stories about events that happened in Communist Poland. While the short stories are fiction, many are based on true events or combine a nice blend of fiction with facts. The stories all share...

“Death was not what she had expected it to be — no light at the end of the tunnel, no angels hovering over her to take her to paradise. Now not even a cup of coffee to soothe her nerves.” Daphne Drayton haunts her former...

The Spare Room and Other Stories by brothers Joshua Danker-Dake and Sean Danker-Smith is an anthology of 26 original short stories across a variety of genres from fantasy to horror. The Gibbins Tree by Sean Danker-Smith is one of my favorites. It’s definitely on par...

In a unique and interesting love story, Triptych: A Mechanical Romance, a great little read by author Java Davis, we meet Hannah, a young woman who’s just moved across the country to accept a position as the manager of a newsroom. Before she even has...

The Treacherous Wheels: An Oliver DeVille Short Story by Vetle Sivertsen centers on Oliver DeVille, an expert in religious extremism. He and his colleagues are enjoying their relaxing team-building event in the Belgian countryside when a radical right-wing French politician is brutally murdered at the...

Wow. That was the word I said to myself after finishing the short story, The Roots of the Antenna, by author David Podlipny. Following the main character, Ming, as he lives a primarily nocturnal lifestyle necessitated by his night shift job, Ming’s existence seems always...

Twisting Darkness is a collection of stories written by J.R. Gridley. A man wakes up inexplicably trapped amidst dead bodies and, as he clambers to find an escape, he wanders through hellish chambers filled with ghouls and indescribably terrifying creatures. A former priest turned Methodist...

TJ, a smart high school student with the potential to go to college but lacking motivation, wants to be a singer like his idol R Kelly. Looking at his life in The Boy Scout: A Novella by D. Bryant Simmons, nothing in his environment indicates...