I Truly Lament: Working Through the Holocaust by Mathias B. Freese is a unique compilation of short stories, taking the reader on a psychological journey through the emotions elicited by the Holocaust. Beginning with a man calling out to a golem, a Jewish monster from...

Wherever You Are by Ci’Monique Green describes a wife’s struggle to cope with life following the unexpected tragedy of her husband’s death. Aven withdraws into her private world of torture as she endures the funeral and the well-wishes and innocent gestures of concerned friends and...

Double Take is a young adult story by Laura Kennedy. Brooke Bentley’s car breaks down and she asks for assistance at a dilapidated mansion. The owner, Laura de France, is an elderly woman who was a former actress and friend of Robert Wagner and Elizabeth...

Comes a Chopper is a collection of horror stories by Bryan Cassiday. If you are a fan of horror, then you’ll get a buzz from this book. How would you react if you saw your death in a dream? Rattigan saw his own and it...

Solitude: The Chronicles of Servitude by J.S Bailey features Bobby, a young down on his luck musician with the gift of premonition. A drifter, he moves around the country in search of somewhere to launch his music career. Currently working in a book store, he...

The Purple Girl is a wonderful fantasy by Audrey Kane. Violet was born with purple skin, eyes and hair. Everything she touches turns purple, but the color eventually disappears. She lives with her parents in a cottage surrounded by a protective wall. Violet is shunned...

Wounded Beacon by Leslie Lee Sanders is a short novella that takes place on post-apocalyptic Earth. The people are forced to band together in small camps in order to survive. In one of these camps, a man named Luke escapes from the grasp of a...

Image is Everything is a short novella by Dominique Wilkins. Robin has always wanted to rise above her meagre existence and live a life of luxury. When she meets Jeff, those dreams turn into reality. However, Jeff is not an upstanding citizen. He is arrested...

Aria by Monica Joshi is a short story about a woman caught between fantasy and reality. Aria Johannes is a struggling artist trapped by her financial situation. She knows that she can rely on Will, the misogynistic, cheating boyfriend, for stability, but she secretly longs...

American Blues may be the saddest book I’ve ever read. It’s also damned poetic. The overwhelming sense of stark, but understandable, tragedy in Evan Guilford-Blake’s short stories produce real emotion in a way that even most books written to encompass a certain emotional state rarely...