Anger’s Children: Three Shorts to Blow Your Mind by K.D. Rose is an interesting compilation of three unrelated short stories: Under the Shadow of Wings, Eyes Only, and The Dark Man. Each story is unique and could actually fit into different genres of literature, from...

What is life? That's an ancient question that has plagued intellectuals, theorists, New Agers, spiritualists, and more for generations. In one of Paul Kim's stories, life is a leaf. Each leaf on a tree serves a specific function, political and non-political. All the leaves work...

When Jack Lancaster was a child, something happened in the forest that would change his life forever. Detectives aren’t able to say for certain what happened that night, chalking it up to the overactive imagination of a child, but Jack knows it was something more....

In Canyon Bound by Jon Messenger, people across the world begin disappearing one by one. They call it the Rapture. Even though it isn’t the best description of what’s happening to the world, it’s a name that seems appropriate at first to the religious mind...

Adventures of Faerie Folk, Volume 1 is a cute children’s storybook by Paula J. Roscoe. In Annabelle and the Strawberry Faerie, rainy weather damages the crops that Annabelle and her mother planted, and they don’t have money to buy food. Annabelle finds strawberries in the...

Love and loss, redemption, doing what’s right, just deserts, and finding what you need when you least expect it are some of the themes of the 14 short stories in Coffee Breaks by Carol White. Everyday characters have everyday problems and concerns and White provides...

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...

Chance Meetings by Madhu Bazaz Wangu is about how meeting one person can change or affect your life. I have always believed that everything happens for a reason. Even if I accidentally bump into someone, it was because it was supposed to happen. That is...

Flash 40: Life's Moments by Janelle Jalbert is an interesting collection of flash fiction pieces divided into several perspectives; beginnings, middles, endings and beyond. All realistic defining moments of people’s lives are instilled in the stories. The collection starts off with “Awkward,” which is an...

A strange man keeps coming to a bar, orders vodka with water, and just stares at the TV, whether on or off. After a few days of this routine, customers start taunting the stranger, but he simply ignores them. One night, he refuses to order...