This set of marvelously taut short stories in Nobody’s Looking by J.R. Miller creates more of a tapestry of themes than a formation of discrete tales. With the deftness shown by a confident, sure-handed writer, the author explores the convoluted but continuous crawl, walk, and...

The short story Strawberry Sorbet: A Noir by Landon Wake is an entertaining piece. The story takes you back to the days when gumshoes and dames roamed the streets. When Detective Richard Hankins decides to take on Ms. Scarlett Strawberry’s case concerning her husband, he...

Across the Water by Phil Harvey is a collection of eleven contemporary short stories of varying length. Phil describes his stories as 'Tales of the Human Heart,' telling readers that they 'examine the pivotal moments when people touch something at their own core or at...

Glimpse, a superbly crafted speculative short story by Daniel P. Douglas, offers the reader a provocative future mystery on which to ponder: What happens when an older couple finally decides to leave their well-outfitted bomb shelter? First, the story must deal out a series of...

Justine Avery’s short story, It Gets Easier: A Short Tale of Comical Catastrophe, is a fascinating fictional work. The story begins with Jake repeating his newly-conceived mantra, “It Gets Easier.” He is driving his girlfriend Samantha to an outlying reservoir, in her mother’s borrowed car....

Softly Launching by Hugh Edward Johnson is a collection of ten short stories: In Love With Subtitles, you've got your jealous wife; NeanderDoll has technology we dream about and a culture from our nightmares; Honeymoon In Hell has your couple accidentally committing murder and then...

House of Refuge is a nice military fiction by Michael DiBaggio. Justin Agnarsson is the lone station-keeper at House of Refuge #49, a floating sanctuary for mariners in the Plata Raft region. He gives shelter to a man and his daughter after an Argentine warship...

Hibernaculum is a short story collection written by Kim McDougall. The title story is a post-apocalyptic vision of a devastated world surrounding the Dome, the last safe refuge for humanity. While many feel safe and sheltered inside the climate-controlled Dome, others can’t help but wonder...

The businessman's name really isn't Scrooge. It's John. But you can imagine why everyone always calls him Scrooge. He tends to have some similarities to the old scoundrel from Dickens' classic tale. This Scrooge lives in contemporary Athens and, like the Scrooge of old, he...

“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...