In Kenneth Bliss’ The Prodigy and the Telepath, we meet a young psionic named Eric D’Tra’val who’s overwhelmed by personal grief while also dealing with unpredictable, painful bursts caused by his psychic powers. His path intersects with Sarah, a newly awakened telepath who is similarly...

I Can See It In Your Eyes by J.R. Abella opens with a nameless predator who lures and murders a woman named Anna in New Orleans, and closes the loop later with a traveling salesman meeting the same fate at the same hotel. The title...

The Lost Claim is the second book in The Mercer Files series by S.F. Baumgartner. At the Longreach offices' 1974 lease register, Lori Callahan, a contract archivist hired by the district, found an altered date with ties to her father's claim. Someone had messed with...

“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...