A young girl, scarred for life from a brutal assault, thrown out of her home by a mother who no longer can stand to look at her – this girl now lives above the comic book store where she works. She hides her scarred face...

Michael wakes early every morning. He often doesn’t need an alarm clock as his internal clock is always set the same. However, upon waking one morning, he looked at his bedside alarm clock and noticed that it read 15:74. It was morning, he knew that...

Fantastic! That's what I thought when I finished reading the great anthology of short stories by author Lou Di Domenico, Songs of the Northwind. With stories as varied as a crime saga, a sea-faring treasure hunting tale, and the story of a house with a...

Collide by Charity Parkerson is the story of two men who find love when they least expected it. Shayne Smith had no idea that his bad day would end with meeting a man who makes his blood sing and his body come alive. His day...

Philip Gaber is a writer’s writer. There is an impossibly effortless quality to his narrative in Epic Sloth: Tales from the Long Crawl which captures his New York City environs and subjects with an HD clarity normally reserved for IMAX theaters. Read one sentence -...

The Flying Kite by Victor A. Davis is a story within a story. Parts of this story were inspired by true events. The author read a National Geographic magazine article about a man who planned to walk south from the South American Andes to the...

Four Doors and Other Stories by A.G. Billig is a collection of twelve short stories that blur the lines of magical realism. Stories like girls Isabella and Mattie who meet by pure chance and have a fantastical adventure as pseudo sisters. A couple that takes...

Change by Victor A. Davis is a short story taken straight from a real life situation about a young patron in a local diner. The girl is working class and only has a limited amount of money to spend on her meal. The author witnessed...

For a collection of stories that stray delightfully off the beaten track of cookie cutter characters and plot lines without any roadside surprises, you can do a lot worse than venturing around inside Unpredictable Worlds: Stories by Jessica Knauss. While the stories are widely divergent,...

The Dog Called Hitler by Walerian Domanski is a collection of short stories about events that happened in Communist Poland. While the short stories are fiction, many are based on true events or combine a nice blend of fiction with facts. The stories all share...