In his newest book, Just Enough Words: An Assortment of Laconic Stories and Essays, George Francis Reid gives readers plenty to think about. The warm humanism coupled with an unadulterated point of view of the world make for rare and socially engaging writing. An unusual...

Sorcerers, demons, angels, monsters, ghosts, witches, and much more ... Even More Tales Most Strange by Jeremy Hayes is a surreal and peculiar anthology of short stories. Vandegald’s Globes starts the collection, a tale about a sorcerer whose unique glass globes are very popular with...

Peace and Disquiet by Helen Laycock is a collection of short stories that range from death to hope. The author uses vivid language, giving birth to a variety of emotions for the reader: sadness, longing, despair, tenderness, fear, rejection, hate and many more. Each story,...

Movember by Beth Loure is a short but powerfully assertive story of a young woman (Sabrina Lawson) who is in college and easily identifies and feels more comfortable with the elderly. Sabrina has already had an unpleasant experience with the lifeguard but is determined not...

Lady Catherine’s Lover by Margaret Lynette Sharp is a short story about a love affair that takes place very quickly after the death of Hubert de Bourgh’s wife, Maria. Hubert sends for Catherine to join him in London. Elizabeth and Darcy, Catherine’s niece-in-law and nephew,...

The Covenant and Other Stories is a collection of literary tales by author J.W. Clark. Throughout these eight stories, Clark discusses what happens when human beings are pushed to their emotional limits as characters search desperately for some semblance of meaning in their lives. There’s...

The Secret Life of the Librarian by Virginia Lush is about an attractive young woman who is a librarian by day and a writer of steamy stories. Jane, the librarian and writer, needs inspiration to write about the naughty intrigues. Jane decides to attend a...

Robyn Branick's 19 is a very short story about a girl in college. One day, out of the blue, she wakes up in the hospital to find out she has had a seizure. The discovery of the struggles she has to go through every day...

A 200-year-old vampire lives in an abandoned 5-storey concrete building in Union Cross Park. He keeps himself fed by picking victims from a drug rehab nearby and through his supply of blood slaves. One night, a woman named Alexandria visits the park and the vampire...

Approaching Footsteps is an anthology of suspense novellas written by Patricia Flaherty Pagan, Rita Banerjee, Donna Hill, Jennifer Leeper and Megan Steusloff. In The Reiger File, by Jennifer Leeper, Tom Reiger, a small-town young man with dreams of becoming a private investigator, takes his leave...