Dash is the son of the estate gardener. Lillian is the daughter of the lord of the manor. The two grew up together as best friends. They fell in love, but when Dash asked for Lillian’s hand in marriage, Lillian’s father was furious. Dash wasn’t...

At the opening of the novella Doppelganger by Jenny Twist, we find our heroine, Christine, sitting in a bath and about to start on her third bottle of wine. Taking yet another handful of pills along with the booze, she is rather disappointed that it...

Momentary Illumination of Objects in Motion by Jason Arias features quirky characters, impressive and unusual story lines, and critical themes. The collection veers off from common ideas to present stories that highlight the brokenness in our world and the sheer effort by many to survive...

Not everyone enjoys the festivities and excitement of Christmas. There are a lot of people who have no family to share the season with and no happy memories to carry them through. Nate is one of these people. As a baby, he was abandoned, adopted...

One day. One moment in time. That’s all it takes for a tragedy, a sorrow that will seep through the soul of a child forever. The memories that fill this tiny space of eternity are enough to make the reader weep for the child who...

Teenaged Anti-Socialite: Unwanted Attention by Alexis Tiger is the first story in a short story series. High school student Kara Landers is an introvert and has no friends by choice. She finds social interaction pointless and tries to avoid it at all costs. Unfortunately for...

Volume 2 of Unfit Magazine, edited by Daniel Scott White, features nine new short stories from a variety of science fiction authors, including Cat Rambo, Ken Liu, Tim Major and Yoon Ha Lee. The collection of stories featured in this volume focuses on the realms...

Art in the late nineteenth century underwent many transitions as artists, most notably in France, strove to make their own mark on the world, to create a new style of expression that was completely their own. As the artistic geniuses of the time painted, argued...

Bubble Off Plumb is an anthology collection of short stories edited by KG Finfrock, Sarah Kalin and Dan M. Kalin, and contributed to by a whole collection of other authors – Marie Brennan, David Tallerman and E.E. King, to name but a few. The tales...

“These short stories touch upon human virtues and vices, identity, alternative universes, space travel, philosophy, death and afterlife, and much more.” In Money Tree, a man dealing with financial hardship discovers a surprising source of wealth that will influence him to make both good and...