Unto Dust by Robert E. Kearns introduces readers to the O’Leary clan, a long-standing line of undertakers. Their funeral home has been a steady presence in their small Irish town since the 1600s. For just as long, the business has passed from father to son,...

June 4, 1968—The Last Fall by Perry Binder concludes a three-part short story series that began with part one, The Last Fall Semester, and part two, The Fallout. When a close friend, Axelle Flick, shows him his time-travel invention, Woody Endicott, a lifelong student...

Unconventional Heroes: Stories of Inspiration, Humor and Misadventure is a collection of fourteen short stories by Don Lehmkuhl. Most of them are set in the vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio, and they comically and tragically portray what the author refers to as “redneck America,” mostly in...

What do a clergyman's dangerous voyage aboard a ship with mysterious human cargo and an ambitious officer's internal battle to rationalize her superior's orders have in common? They are short stories in Carmelo Rafala’s unusual collection. Read along and be enthralled as a soldier finds...

She Was Here: The Marginalia of Rossana Averni by G. C. Marti is an exploration of the aftermath of a gifted teenager’s hospitalization following a suicide attempt. Set in Venice, the story unfolds over eight days, focusing on three of Rossana’s teachers as they...

Robots, Please is an eclectic collection of loosely connected short stories by Jared M. Bentley. A newly created forestry robot unwittingly causes unrest among politicians, military strategists, and environmentalists alike, until it unexpectedly gets a promotion. After offering a ride to a hitchhiking andro sapien,...

Arklight: Templar Underworld by J.M. Myrick is a deep dive into the secrets, myths, and mysteries left behind by the Templar Knights as well as the modern-day Templar Secret Orders that keep those traditions alive. It is 1990, and thirteen irreplaceable masterpieces are stolen from...

Crow: The Luck of Charm by Surya Prakash Shrivastava is a short story about the connection between a boy and a crow. Yash lives in an urban environment, with chaotic traffic and construction noise just outside his window. Inside, chaos comes from his arguing parents....

Old Friends and Other Broken Things by Leah Cohen is a collection of thought-provoking stories about fractured relationships, societal expectations, and psychological turmoil. Two friends who have been apart for 11 years discover how one’s life has changed while the other’s has remained stagnant; a...

In Dark Place by Christopher Kell, when Ros is taken in the night after her government rating as a compliant citizen suddenly collapses, her friends, Femke and Domhnal, follow through on a dangerous plan to discover where the dispossessed are sent. They deliberately trigger their...