“Sometimes being unschooled is an advantage in art: you have more freedom to unlock your emotions . . . to not know when you’ve crossed a boundary that probably shouldn’t have been there in the first place.” Boundaries fade in Vaulted Night (A Novella of...

The Secret of the Smiling Rock Man by Joe Cappello is a collection of 14 short stories that readers will enjoy. All the stories are built around characters his father used to describe as having “rocks in their heads,” people who refuse to settle for...

Ursula Bloom is the editor of a gutter rag with flagging sales. Desperate to have a win, she decides to print a fake news story about celebrity children’s author Emmie Hobson. The story starts small: a doctored image of an overweight child who died 30...

In Evelyn M. Exley’s Guardian of the City, we follow Farguhar, a young nobleman who grows up in a harsh society built on violence and control. Raised by a mean, pragmatic father to be a cold killer, Farguhar secretly wrestles with a silent desire to...

William J. McCoy and his wife, Olivia (Liv), are celebrating that they’re going to be parents. But on the drive home, the car blows a tire, and Liv is killed. William wakes up in the hospital totally bereft. He receives a visit from an odd...

Michael’s father has recently passed away, and his brother Roy delivers one final request from their dad: an old shoebox full of family memories. Nothing in the shoebox appeals to Michael except an old dictaphone and some tapes. There’s nothing remarkable on the tapes, but...

From Spark to Story: Vol. 1 is an eclectic collection of short stories by Tina Harden. It took just one night for the legend of a queen of a parlor house in Dakota Territory to be erased from people's memories. A young musician finds stardom...

A Manor to Rue In by G. H. Glover is a horror novella that fulfills every horror story’s objective of scaring the pants off its readers. When First World War veteran Thomas Harrow was still reeling from ruin in the October 1929 financial crash, he...

After the Storm by Robert Groves is a haunting mystery about fear and the choices we make. Greyhook Island is being permanently evacuated, and former law enforcement officer Noah Kincaid is returning for the last time. The last time he saw this island was years...

A Fine Madness: A Novella in Stories and Other Mad Stories by Jeffrey Feingold is a collection of thought-provoking tales that explore human fragility, masculinity, loss, and identity. You meet characters like B, a bald Jewish guy trying to make sense of life and loneliness...