The Spare Room and Other Stories by brothers Joshua Danker-Dake and Sean Danker-Smith is an anthology of 26 original short stories across a variety of genres from fantasy to horror. The Gibbins Tree by Sean Danker-Smith is one of my favorites. It’s definitely on par...

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...

Years of Autistic Creativity by Joseph D. Smith is a unique book of "lyrics" written for the reader to peruse and enjoy at leisure. It is a whimsical book about love and how best to express that love or understand that one is in love....

Flash 40: Life's Moments by Janelle Jalbert is an interesting collection of flash fiction pieces divided into several perspectives; beginnings, middles, endings and beyond. All realistic defining moments of people’s lives are instilled in the stories. The collection starts off with “Awkward,” which is an...

Legacy is an important topic, too often overlooked in today’s fast paced society. There comes a time in life, as some of the characters from this soul touching outcome of a fourteen authors’ gathering reveal, when we wonder about the end and what would happen...

Women come in all shapes, sizes, shades and degrees of sanity. With the collection Because She Was A Woman, Kali Amanda Browne zooms in on the group and randomly gives us snapshots of individuals. Meet the mother whose daughter punishes her with a shotgun wedding....

Nothing Is Strange by Mike Russell does the opposite of what the title supposedly entails; all 20 short stories in this book are strange. Some stories are intriguing, some are surreal, witty, as well as inspiring. Then there are stories that are just downright confusing...

The Nightingale Circus by Ioana Visan is a short story collection in the Broken People series. It tells the story of the fascinating members of the circus. We learn about their past, how they ended up at the circus and the work that they do,...

A Spider Spinning Daydreams by Kenneth Tucker is a book of short stories that captures the reader's interest from the first page to the last. Tucker has a vivid imagination and nearly has his audience believing in aliens, hermits and human devils. Lester Wilthammer is...

Our First Christmas is a compilation of four different stories written by four different authors. In A Ranger for Christmas by Mary Burton, Marisa Thompson, a history professor who studies ancient languages, agrees to help Texas Ranger Lucas Cooper solve a case involving a code...