The latest collection of stories from Rich DiSilvo is an intriguing, thought-provoking mix of tales. Published under the title Short Stories V: Speculative Musings, the book contains an eclectic assortment of short stories, starting with a disturbing look at how modern animation could fuel a...

Good Friday: Dreams & Nightmares is a work of short fiction with paranormal and drama themes, and was penned by author J. R. Wirth. The story focuses on the central theme of ‘what if’ with some speculative intrusions and the mystery of reality versus dreams....

Keys, Portraits of Trials and Truth by James Lloyd is a collection of three short stories in which you will discover that as long as you have faith in God, everything will be all right. The first story called “Waiting” is about a young man...

When Strange Calls You Home by Kelly Punton is an excellent collection of twelve short stories. A teenage girl tries to figure out what she wants from her somewhat dull life. A man takes a chance on an epic space adventure. Another man struggles with...

Life is complex. Artists have attempted to unveil the meaning of life via different avenues of expression: music, art, literature, theater, dance. To some people, music is the ultimate medium of expression, a language all its own, a symphony of ideas, emotions, time and space...

Christa’s Choice by Teena Raffa is a quick, modern romance told from the perspective of a young Australian woman. Christa is on her way out of town, trying to escape a messy, heartbreaking situation involving her long time best friend and her almost-husband. As Christa...

Odd Voices, edited by K.C. Finn and Kell Cowley, is a collection of short stories like no other. For too long protagonists have been cut from the same cloth, but not here. Gone are the cookie-cutter leads, replaced with beautifully diverse characters, and they take...

Hap The Prize Winning Horse by Horace Crenshaw Jr. is about horse racing and particularly about a racehorse named Hap. A man named Bennett purchased Hap while on a trip to the Mississippi State Fair in Jackson, Mississippi. Hap and Bennett had mutual respect for...

"I’m afraid. I think I’m going mad. I heard the Weaver this morning when I woke up and it spoke to me, but I was awake. Is it real? It asked me to ‘embrace’ it. I’m scared. Maybe I can forget about the Weaver, then...

Snapshots: A Collection of Short Stories, written by Eliot Parker, contains a fascinating set of stories. With settings in large cities and small towns, in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, each story is distinctly unique. Some stories are tinged with magical realism, while others are...