In this wide-ranging collection of twelve short stories, a startling array of characters explore their perspectives on love. The stories sweep from sharp realism to heady allegory, haunting fables to sci-fi thrillers, starring teens and drifting husbands, futuristic automatons and talking dogs, gardeners and gatekeepers, a blind girl, a young father, and many more. In … Read more
The characters in Julia MacDonnell’s first collection, The Topography of Hidden Stories, grapple with doubt and disquiet in their search for love and connection, for their own place in the world, and create a shining tapestry of women’s lives in the late 20th and the early 21st centuries. Several feature women trapped in a pious … Read more
A demon deer and a ghost cat. Sibling rivalry and sexual awakening. Self-image and self-confidence. The chance for an offworlder to breathe free at last on a new planet. Those are just some of the diverse themes of these remarkable stories. Some endings are happy, some are sad, and some are intriguingly open-ended. But once … Read more
In this collection of stories on love and loss, hopes and dreams, and memory and regret, David Joseph’s prose resonates in an authentic and convincing manner. His writing possesses an ability to convey real emotion through compelling, simple language, human interaction, and small moments. The collection, which is set in the Iberian Peninsula, carries the … Read more
Follow four friends growing up in the discounted seventies; broken homes, broken town, broken lives. And then Punk arrives… like a hammer blow… giving them a chance to make dreams, a chance to change. The ethos of Punk helps them fight for a life to live despite the crime, the danger; the whole knock you … Read more
Wickedly funny, suspenseful, intense, and intriguing, you will be immediately drawn into to these one hundred word stories—aka “drabbles”—masterfully crafted by Arlene Duane Hemingway. Every word has been carefully chosen for style and content to create mesmerizing tales and characters. Covering a range of topics and emotions, this collection of 100 of the briefest narratives … Read more
Shorts & Shit is Dayton O’Donnell’s debut anthology of short fiction and poetry. Each piece in this collection plays with the idea of perspective in storytelling through often fantastic and imaginative settings, narratives and characters. Shorts & Shit: An Anthology is a phenomenal anthology and poetry book that has astounded me book lovers! Anthologies are … Read more