“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...

Phases is a story that shows Nick's life from when he was young and felt out of place. It starts when he joins music school, meets Dara, and later meets Naia at a birthday party. After Naia disappears, Dara and Nick go to look for...

In Paul Martin Midden’s Simple People, Ahmed Winslow has built a quiet life as a Missouri truck driver, keeping his distance from family while secretly producing counterfeit currency in the basement of his rented house. When a plan to filter the money through banks in...

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...

Craig Brown’s Dignity follows an unnamed boy in Petone, New Zealand, who first approaches Malcolm Beaumont, the council binman everyone calls Bogie, after classmates dare him to steal the man’s Coke. What begins as a childish test turns into an unlikely attachment, formed on a...

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...

The Youngster by Bibi Berki is a story of love, belonging, and loss. Cherry has been diagnosed with dementia. She is a single mother with only one child, Georgie, and they are more like buddies than mother and daughter. Cherry is already showing signs of...

The Adventures of Kimo by Eric A. Javier captures the feeling of being a young child desperate to escape a mundane afternoon. Kimo is stuck at home because a thick fog has blanketed the California coast, ending any chance of his going to the beach....

Wisteria Winter by Ann Swann is the compelling story of two sisters who lose everything they love on Christmas Eve. Woken by a premonition, Sasha Everly wakes up her older sister Linzy, only to find that it’s too late to save their parents from the...

Bodies of Water by Marylee MacDonald is a collection of original short stories. Each story ranges in length and content, but all are about people whose lives change when water enters the equation. In The Ark Encounter, Pearl loses her house to a hurricane, then...