Glimpse, a superbly crafted speculative short story by Daniel P. Douglas, offers the reader a provocative future mystery on which to ponder: What happens when an older couple finally decides to leave their well-outfitted bomb shelter? First, the story must deal out a series of...

Justine Avery’s short story, It Gets Easier: A Short Tale of Comical Catastrophe, is a fascinating fictional work. The story begins with Jake repeating his newly-conceived mantra, “It Gets Easier.” He is driving his girlfriend Samantha to an outlying reservoir, in her mother’s borrowed car....

Softly Launching by Hugh Edward Johnson is a collection of ten short stories: In Love With Subtitles, you've got your jealous wife; NeanderDoll has technology we dream about and a culture from our nightmares; Honeymoon In Hell has your couple accidentally committing murder and then...

House of Refuge is a nice military fiction by Michael DiBaggio. Justin Agnarsson is the lone station-keeper at House of Refuge #49, a floating sanctuary for mariners in the Plata Raft region. He gives shelter to a man and his daughter after an Argentine warship...

Hibernaculum is a short story collection written by Kim McDougall. The title story is a post-apocalyptic vision of a devastated world surrounding the Dome, the last safe refuge for humanity. While many feel safe and sheltered inside the climate-controlled Dome, others can’t help but wonder...

The businessman's name really isn't Scrooge. It's John. But you can imagine why everyone always calls him Scrooge. He tends to have some similarities to the old scoundrel from Dickens' classic tale. This Scrooge lives in contemporary Athens and, like the Scrooge of old, he...

“I wrote these stories because I had to. If I didn't write them then nobody else would have and I thought that that would be an awful state of affairs; you can decide for yourself whether I was right or not. Read the stories when...

Autumn Harvest: A Celebration of Halloween and the Macabre by Mark Kasniak is a collection of spooky tales set around Halloween. Some friends spend the night near a train wreck and experience a night of terror, a demon which speaks through a radio, raising the...

The Exiles by E. Leo Foster tells the story of Johnny, a former prisoner, his attempts at a second chance in life, and the struggles he will have to face in order to redeem himself. Unfortunately, life is rarely like one dreams it will be,...

The Malevolent Twin by Mary Sage Nguyen is a rather unusual young adult horror novel that will keep you wondering how it will play out for quite a while. Avery, a rather charming young lady, had an imaginary friend since she was little: Venice. At...