Scarlet Yearnings Beyond First Glance: Collector’s Edition by Scarlet Ibis James is a breath of fresh air. It’s a collection of short stories that includes popular romance tropes, like second-chance romance, fake dating, and marriages in trouble, but in a different and more emotionally satisfying...

Russ Colson’s Minding Earth is a fascinating anthology that pulls readers right into a series of thought-provoking scenarios where science meets human nature. In one standout piece, a skeptical geologist named Nate decides to investigate a time-travel company, convinced their dinosaur tours are a corporate...

Teach Me How to Die by Lisa Monde begins with the novella, the main story in the collection, which is a haunting, theatrical meditation on mortality in which Professor Scott Mirrormord holds a master class at the Shetler Studios in New York City for five...

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...

Yesterday's Shadows by David R. Beshears shares six stories that he wrote when he first started on the path to becoming an author and journalist. Each story is complete in its own right and leaves the reader wondering what a full-length book would bring. Most...

In Kathy-Lynn Cross’s Shattered from Within, six stories and novellas move through horror that begins inside the mind before it reaches the world beyond it. When Emily Was Here follows a woman who has spent thirteen years inside an institution and no longer knows which...

Feisty Deeds II: Historical Tales of Batches and Brews is an anthology of original fiction about women who turn to food and the alchemical art across the continents and centuries. Escape to the Peaceful Valley by Christy Matheson follows Ailbe, a senior attendant in third-century...

When Breaks The Maelstrom by Eugene Barnes is a collection of dark fantasy and science fiction stories. The book takes readers on wild rides into the minds of people about to commit murder, to the American Old West to investigate a sharpshooting case, and to...

Sean M. Tirman’s A Rap on the Door is a collection of short stories built from speculative premises that turn familiar fears into strange pressure points. And they all start with a knock. Among them is Polaris Breach, where a widowed sailor leaves shore after...

Tales from the Texas Timberlands, Volume 2 by J. Andrew Rice features five interconnected stories set in East Texas. It shows ordinary folks whose character, persistence, and everyday values end up shaping the next generation. The first tale, “Sawmill,” follows the dauntless Berry brothers who...