It is not every day you come across stories that have been marinated in suspense, cooked in gore, and finished up in an intriguing fashion that creates a horror story. This is an art form that comes naturally to its wielder. It feeds on the...

Jeffrey M. Feingold’s The Black Hole Pastrami is a colorful, humorous, wise, and often deeply moving collection of short stories about growing up in Boston’s Ukrainian-Jewish community and navigating the challenging terrain of adulthood in the shadow of high expectations, inevitable loss, and an ever-present...

The Dog Stays And Other Stories is a collection of tales by Marjan Sierhuis about animals, relationships, the pandemic, hospitals, and more. The book contains stories of farm animals bothering their owners and wild animals hunting and gathering; a dragon trying to succeed in the...

The Healing Book by Dustin Grinnell is a collection of short, slice-of-life stories about people trying to navigate the various absurdities of life. "An Affable Man" follows a young man disillusioned with his corporate career who finally finds meaning in his life after a chance...

The Unnatural Order of Things by Rick M. Clausen is a short story collection that follows ordinary people's experiences with the unknown. The book opens with "Forty Miles of Bad Road," where two men try to escape the clutches of the law after robbing a...

The Keeper of Dragonflies: And Other Twisted Tales of Japan is a work of fiction penned by author Thomas Noah Wood in the short story collection, cross-cultural writing, and romance subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience owing to some sexual...

Tales of the Beautifully Dark: Volume One is written and illustrated by Marc R. Micciola. Umochibu people are sacrificed in a blasphemous effort to vanquish a disease that has spread. Princess Akua is angry over so much death, including the loss of the Emperor. The...

The Game Café: Stories of New York City in Covid Time is a collection of nine short stories by Eleanor Lerman. As the title suggests, the stories are about individuals living in New York City during the Covid-19 pandemic. Through her stories, we are invited...

The Year of the Dark Spring is a work of fiction in the dark fantasy, pseudo-historical fiction, and adventure anthology subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Lewis A. D'Ambra. In this immersive and interesting primer...

What happens when the natural becomes unnatural? How does one react to an event that you know never really happened but everyone seems to remember it? Baffled? Disturbed? Or simply shocked to your core. Read on as a reporter gets a front seat in his...