Point Blank: A Short Tale of Macabre Family Faults is a short story murder mystery written by Justine Avery. Michael never realized that she was this insane, though she had terrorized him his whole life. Now, with the gun pressing down into his skull, he...

Population of Loss: Four Tales of the Martian War (Martian War Chronicles Book 1) by Michael and Shell DiBaggio is an interesting dystopian collection about the Martian wars. It features four separate stories about various characters who are important to this setting, and each of...

Rebecca Carey Lyles has joined with over thirteen other authors to create a wonderful collection of short stories in Passageways: A Short Story Collection. It appears that Rebecca carefully selected these authors because of how each story melds together. This is a great book for...

“I cry because I want to still be a boy, not a guardian. I miss my life and I miss my home.” Pixies in Neverland are dying, and without someone to believe in them, Neverland would soon cease to exist. Tink is the only pixie...

Poor Advice and Other Stories is a fantastic book of short stories written by Lou Gaglia. I would call these stories "short shorts", as most of them are only a few pages long, making them very easy to read. The stories run the gamut from...

Short stories are such a gift for the avid reader. During times when you really want to read, but you only have a short bit of time, and you don’t want to start a tome that would take a lot of concentration, or a book...

In Persecution, the first book in the Dyphillum series by Elizabeth Montgomery, Cecily and Isaac are Dyphillum, half vampire, half witch hybrids. Graced with extraordinary powers, they are persecuted by their clan and are made to leave the only home they ever knew. Hunted by...

L.L. Sanders writes an intense psychological drama in Passing the Torch. “Good girls will do anything for their fathers,” is embedded into Mesa Kingston’s soul. After her mother abandons them, Mesa and her father would visit the family’s cottage to escape the city life and...

Prism is a collection of short stories that span multiple locations, times and worlds. Roland Allnach has a great talent for creating worlds, building an atmosphere and painting for the reader a believable setting for each story. His power of description is considerable. The style...

Poetry and Short Stories by a Bipolar Girl by Melissa Burke is at times beautiful and at times frightening in the vivid descriptions of the deep melancholy and self-destructive feelings of a teenager living with bipolar disease. The pain that she is feeling comes through...