Solitude: The Chronicles of Servitude by J.S Bailey features Bobby, a young down on his luck musician with the gift of premonition. A drifter, he moves around the country in search of somewhere to launch his music career. Currently working in a book store, he...

The Purple Girl is a wonderful fantasy by Audrey Kane. Violet was born with purple skin, eyes and hair. Everything she touches turns purple, but the color eventually disappears. She lives with her parents in a cottage surrounded by a protective wall. Violet is shunned...

Wounded Beacon by Leslie Lee Sanders is a short novella that takes place on post-apocalyptic Earth. The people are forced to band together in small camps in order to survive. In one of these camps, a man named Luke escapes from the grasp of a...

Image is Everything is a short novella by Dominique Wilkins. Robin has always wanted to rise above her meagre existence and live a life of luxury. When she meets Jeff, those dreams turn into reality. However, Jeff is not an upstanding citizen. He is arrested...

Aria by Monica Joshi is a short story about a woman caught between fantasy and reality. Aria Johannes is a struggling artist trapped by her financial situation. She knows that she can rely on Will, the misogynistic, cheating boyfriend, for stability, but she secretly longs...

American Blues may be the saddest book I’ve ever read. It’s also damned poetic. The overwhelming sense of stark, but understandable, tragedy in Evan Guilford-Blake’s short stories produce real emotion in a way that even most books written to encompass a certain emotional state rarely...

Seasons of the Heart by Stephanie Fletcher is a compilation of four short stories. Each story focuses on a different season of love. The first story, “Spring,” is about a teenager named Stacey. It’s the last day of school and her friend Jennifer convinces her...

The Catherine Wheel by Niya White is a compilation of three short stories. The first story is called, like the book, The Catherine Wheel. Mary Catherine Wheeler and her parents come to a small town with a strange ritual. Every November, they reenact the martyrdom...

Shadow Journey: A Mrs. Blackstone Story by S.D. O’Donnell is a short story based on one of the characters in O’Donnell’s book, Deadly Memories. The story tells of a woman, Vera Blackstone, and her husband, Ted. Ted is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. He...

Deadly in Love is a short mystery by Tracey Michelle. Jason and Tonya are a happy, successful couple managing a company. But their lives soon change when Tonya’s best friend, Jessica, is murdered and Shirley, an employee who Jason fired, is found dead in her...