“He breathed in the cool, damp mountain air in slow, deliberate gulps, relishing every molecule of the now peaceful night. A single, muffled gunshot echoed out from the peculiar house… lives were extinguished from the narrow valley on one dreadful evening.” Technician and lifelong motorcycle...

What does it really mean to be Prince Charming? For that matter, what does it really mean to be Cinderella? Dmitriv is supposed to choose a wife at the ball, but he’s having too much fun flirting with all the ladies who hover around him....

Storch is definitely on the point of taking his own life when he realizes it’s only a matter of time before the FBI arrests him. He knows when the truth all comes out about his money-making activities, he’ll live out his life in a federal...

Annie and the Outlaw by Nancy Schumacher is an entertaining tale as Annie Callahan and Cane Smith come to terms about raising young Mark. Annie has cared for him since he was a newborn, but Cane is his biological father and demands custody. The one...

The Cattle Driver by Ryan Uytdewilligen tells us the story of an old cowboy, Ken Dalgliesh. Ken has made his fortune on the vast open lands of Texas and no longer needs to ride the range herding cattle. His children, now adults, all live in...

My Cursed Heart is a dark fantasy novella written by Steve Zimcosky and illustrated by Ivetic Vicai. His plane was landing at the Cleveland Airport on his way to attend his elder brother’s funeral when he was drawn back in his memory to a moment...

This intriguing short story will interest any romantic soul who believes love is ageless. Remembering Skye by Denise Liebig will stretch the reader’s knowledge of Scotland and its largest island in the Inner Hebrides. The Isle of Skye is where this love story began, hundreds...

Samantha is, as the subtitle suggests, a back story to the Amie in Africa books, so Amie does make a few appearances. One of them is with Mum, when they deliver her bossy, dismissive, super-efficient, elder sister Samantha’s forgotten passport to the airport. That is...

“I’ll be honest—not that I always am—while I take pride in the quality of my work, I don’t take any special pleasure out of it. I just do what the Boss tells me, and I don’t ask questions. And I’ll admit, I even feel kind...

I just had a delightful trip down Memory Lane as I read the eleven stories of Duck and Cover by Rich Elliott. I did not grow up in the small town of Milford, Illinois, but in the larger and more citified Bronx, New York; this...