A hungry homeless man is shot and killed when he steals a bag of cupcakes in the whimsical short story, The Cases of George Alpha #1- Cupcakes (A George Alpha Short Story) by Arne Vandamme. Duncan Freight hadn't eaten in over a day and was...

Teal Dissociated is the title of a new novella by Clabe Polk. Teal is the name of the planet on which the story is set and is derived from the color of the blue-green ocean that covers most of its surface. It is a beautiful...

Ten Seconds by Lucian Lupescu attempts to map a human life using a sequence of very short or ‘flash fiction’ vignettes. The ten stories open with a fetus-eye view of birth, followed by a childhood in a troubled home, and a longer piece describing a...

Jack did not know that his life would change in a flash. An ordinary day transformed into a mysterious one when a man gave him an envelope and told him to hand it over to a tall man wearing a blue pin-stripe suit with a...

"I’m afraid. I think I’m going mad. I heard the Weaver this morning when I woke up and it spoke to me, but I was awake. Is it real? It asked me to ‘embrace’ it. I’m scared. Maybe I can forget about the Weaver, then...

The Baron’s Ward is a short story written by Isabella Berdyna Zysk. Eighteen-year-old Eustacia Rose travels to Galeva to visit her relative, the Baron of Galeva, whom she hasn’t seen in years. She wonders why he hadn’t replied to the letters she wrote while attending...

The Lover and Interpreter of Human Oddities: A Novella by Anthony Labriola is the story of a man who loves to discover human oddities and tries to find a way to interpret them. Dr. Clive Wango is an eccentric man and he knows it. He...

In this collection of short stories, Thaine Chase stirs some emotion and brings an occasional smile of satisfaction. Old Joe: An aged veteran dies rescuing school children from terrorists. Greggie, a seventeen-year-old kid and his partner guard a bare Korean hill. Below, he sees an...

The Imposters of Badington Bay by Robert E. Kearns is the story of a man who came to Badington on a mission and finds out everything is not as it seems in this sleepy little town. Badington is not a place where you look for...

The Pastor of Rush Springs is a short story by Robert E. Kearns. In a small rural town on a hot July day, some time after neon lights have become popular but before air conditioning is widely available, a newly arrived preacher holds an adoring...