No one can fully appreciate the extent of a dog’s unconditional love for his human playmate unless they have experienced the joys and sorrows of owning a dog, of allowing the dog to be part of their lives for years, a vital member of the...

In A Delicate Reunion by Susan Jean Ricci, Melanie could not believe her eyes when she spotted a man walking up her driveway. Nick, the CIA agent who eight years prior left her when she was five months pregnant with his child. How could...

A New Dream Arises by Gregory Kopp is part of the Kopp Chronicles. In A New Dream Arises, the author opens the American connection with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater, and how Vice President Andrew Johnson felt about what President Abraham Lincoln...

Tilly recalled VE Day. She sneaked out of the nursing home where she worked and spent most of the night dancing with Johnny, an Army captain. Then he proposed to her. She liked the prospect of marrying him, but dreaded meeting his wealthy parents, since...

Anomalous Node is a unique story about a man named Thomas who isolates himself after the death of his wife, Sarah, five years earlier. Author Phillip Johnson tells the entire story from Thomas's point of view as he is trying to continue on, despite all...

In After-Tide by Amy Louise Hill, a group of friends prepares to go on holiday. Before long, there is a scary turn of events as the airplane that is supposed to take them to their holiday destination runs into trouble. Things go from bad to...

A Light Revision by Phillip Johnson is a fantasy science fiction hybrid novella that revolves around Oliver, whose life shifts dramatically at eighteen, with a flood of disjointed memories blending real and presumably imagined experiences. His recollections are massively diverse, like roaming a desert, coping...

If brevity is the soul of flash fiction, then well-executed brevity makes for exemplary flash fiction. A Year of Shorts: Flash Fiction, a collection curated by Barbara Venkataraman, is an example of such execution. This compilation is grouped by themes corresponding to the seasons of...

A Collection of Very Short Stories by Cheryl Holloway, as its title implies, is a fascinating series of ironic, whimsical, engaging vignettes, each one written to highlight a single chosen word and each one delightful. The titles of these literary 'bonnes bouches' are diverse, ranging...

AnaRose and the Templar's Quest is an action-adventure novella by Mary Ann Bernal set in contemporary times but inspired by events in medieval history. Dr. AnaRose Preston is a highly regarded curator of antiquities at a museum in the United States. A European antiquities institute...