“I wrote these stories because I had to. If I didn't write them then nobody else would have and I thought that that would be an awful state of affairs; you can decide for yourself whether I was right or not. Read the stories when...

Beyond The Rainbow's End: Short Stories by James Pitter is a collection of five short stories, just 57 pages in all, covering a variety of situations and introducing diverse characters. In A Digital Immortality, we meet Jed and Rami encountering a philosophical debate over whether...

Broken Heart Apartments by Derek Vaughn is a short story of two weird couples with an impossible love story, but one that is hugely entertaining. Seth is a very jealous lover whose girlfriend breaks up with him in unusual circumstances. He is the epitome of...

Breathless by Jessica Bayliss is a short novel/story with a paranormal theme. Leah is on a diving holiday in the Caribbean, looking for closure and resolution after the death of her twin brother, Evan. She escapes death herself: scuba diving instructor Dale comes to her...

Wow! Just...wow! I just finished reading the absolutely wonderful collection of short stories by author Marylee MacDonald, Bonds of Love & Blood, and I simply cannot get over how fantastic this book was! Anyone who knows me knows that I love short stories in general....

A strange man keeps coming to a bar, orders vodka with water, and just stares at the TV, whether on or off. After a few days of this routine, customers start taunting the stranger, but he simply ignores them. One night, he refuses to order...

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....

Broken Chains, a short story by Rebecka Vigus, tells a breathtaking and interesting tale of trust lost and gained by a single mother of two kids whose parents passed away 10 years ago. She takes on the difficult challenges of her job, dealing with drunken...

Baffin’s Curious Consequence by Josephine Young is from her fun series, The Dragonasaurus Tales. While Baffin is taking a nice little nap under a tree, troublesome Dex sneaks up and frightens him with a great big ROAR! Baffin and his friends are not amused as...

Baffin’s Desire for Fire is another wonderful book in the Dragonasaurus Tales by Josephine Young. Uncle Max is cooking his sausage by blowing fire on it through his nose, and Baffin wants his marshmallow toasted. Grouchy Uncle Max refuses and tells Baffin to do it...