In James P. Usavage’s thoughtful novella, On These Shores, a man reflects on his life and finds hope just when his life is about to fall apart. Burdened by excessive debt, Benedict Barns dreads going to work. His job has become an unfulfilling chore...

Spirit Pass by Angela Ellen Grey is a collection of novellas involving tribal law enforcement and certain types of missing persons and murder cases. This collection examines the high murder rates and cases of missing Native American women. As the author highlights, this is a...

Greedy as a Ghoul is a work in the dark fantasy, adventure, and action subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience due to its graphic violence and gore. It forms the prequel story for the upcoming novel Malfus: Necromancer Unchained. In...

Randall Brown collates the writing of multiple authors and fine art photography in his anthology Healing Visions. The stories are broken down into either fiction or 'creative non-fiction' but are not separated from each other, and the similarity between one author to another comes down...

L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 31: The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year by L. Ron Hubbard is an anthology of short stories by 12 new or amateur writers in 2015. The authors were award-winners in The Writers...

Ninth Planet is a set of short stories in the speculative and anthology subgenres. It is best suited to the mature adult reading audience and is penned by Jason Palmer. In this unique collection of nine short stories with deeply multi-layered and multi-genre influences and...

Ultimate Revenge by Eichin Chang-Lim is a short story examining the value of revenge. Russell ends up spending seven years incarcerated in federal prison after being tricked into delivering guns and drugs for a workmate. Caught in the FBI stakeout, Russell argues his naivety and...

Robotic Humanoids is a science fiction story by Steve Evans. The year is 2026, and the planet is severely damaged by pollution. The world leaders have a meeting where they all agree to save Earth from the effects of climate change and encourage scientists to...

As D.L. Rhodes notes, speculative fiction is a mixed bag of genres that includes but is not limited to horror, science fiction, fantasy, magic, and just plain weird and otherwise unidentifiable themes. In The Woods, Dark & Deep is all that and more. For older...

Now, That's a Trick by Dawn Sperber is a short collection of eleven flash fiction stories. A young woman infatuated with a trickster of coins finally gets her hands on his luckiest token after the greatest trick of them all. After being hassled by a...