“I’ve only known two men’s souls in my life, one the devil, the other the bird's wings which picked me up and carried me back to the freedom of being.” This quote from Kiss on Her Wings is a powerful statement of love and trust...

Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2: 10x1000 word stories of unusual crimes (Chase Williams detective short stories) by Stefania Mattana is a collection of 10 crime stories. These crime stories revolve around the adventures of a detective, Chase Williams. The stories are short and readers...

Red Dust: The Fall by Ben Dixon and Sam Campbell is three short stories that take place in old west times, when the west was still being settled. In the first story you meet Masterson, who is searching for a wagon train that got lost....

A collection of 33 original short stories and 22 poems, David Podlipny’s A Basement: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems (Alphabet) is enjoyable yet partly a conundrum to me. The short stories are presented at the start of this collection, and I had to...

Northern Lights by Sharon McGregor is a page-turning, suspense-filled mystery that begs to be read in one sitting! When Madison (Maddie) Smart finds herself without a job, her best friend Boomer suggests that she take a temporary job managing a fishing lodge for his friend...

A.D. Trosper promises readers grand new adventures with her short story A New Beginning. The land of Galdrilene is a dangerous, yet magical land, but Emallya has simpler dreams for her life. She longs to have the domestic joys her mother has achieved: a husband...

Jacob Mendelsohn shines with his book of short stories. With themes ranging from leaving your past behind to redemption and the broken people on society's edges, All My Goodbyes is a real thought provoker. A boy is the only witness to a tragic crime and...

Requiem for a Lost Youth by Diana Hockley is a short story that starts off with someone receiving a couple of incriminating photographs along with a newspaper piece with the headline: “Murder in the Mountains.” Shocked and terrified because it had happened several years ago...

In An Honourable Man by Diana Hockley, Genevieve Holloway is a primary school teacher who dreams of meeting her soul mate. She has noticed Christopher “Christy” Fallon around the school where she works. She finds him attractive and intriguing. She soon begins to fantasize about...

Accursed Women, a collection of short stories by Luciana Cavallaro, is a unique and interesting take on Greek myths with five stories (each with 'curse' somewhere in the title) told from the perspective of five different women. You don't have to know much about Greek...