And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family is a family saga written by Annie Dawid. The story begins in 1900, in Radautz, Bukovina. Lazar and Reizl are devout Jews who've suffered the loss some years before of three of their children to...

Engaging Enchantment by Efran Myles is the first tale in The Legend of Lord Randall series. It begins with a bedtime story being told about how the Keeper got his magic. The story is told by their mother to nine-year-old Alyssa, and her little brother...

The Mixed Pickle by Trina Chako is a book made up of thirteen short stories. Each story is different; some are funny and some just make you think. The author is from India so I was not familiar with some of the terms she used...

Cinders by V.M. Sawh is a short story included in the series Good Tales for Bad Dreams. Rella works in a house of ill-repute for the villainous “Stepmother.” All of the girls there were rescued off the street and are held in the house, subjected...

It Happened in the Cottonwood Library Parking Lot by Ann K. Metlay is a book of twenty short stories centered around the library’s parking lot. The Cottonwood Library is an actual place in Arizona. The stories in this book are all fiction, but each has...

Crushed Gardenias by Heather Osborne is a short story that is full of suspense. It develops with tension as a serial killer is committing murders of innocent people. The story follows Agent Hatting who is in charge of the case. She is externally reserved, but...

The Wishing Coin by Antara Man is a marvelously written story about Julia Preston, an aspiring television reporter with visions of hosting her network’s top rated show called “The Screw.” She loses out to a younger star. To make matters worse, it’s her rival Jennifer...

Fenceline and Other Stories is written by Jeremy Sayers. He has compiled actual tales and facts from his family’s history, repeated from generation to generation. In Fenceline, Henry Jenkins spends a harsh winter alone in a remote line shack on his employer’s ranch. He is...

The Bookseller: A Somnium Chronicles Short Story by M. Blake Adams is a fun short story about two best friends running a used bookstore, Somnium, in southern California. Zachariah and Gabriel spend their days surfing, aspiring to great things, and trying to make a living...

The small, peaceful village of Burshill, England, is stunned when beloved resident Laura Clayton is murdered. Chief Constable Sir John Bury, a friend of the victim, assigns Detective Chief Inspector Richard Hayward to investigate. The only leads the detective has are the dying words of...