"3 Magic Dreams" is an offbeat trio of stories paired with inventive illustrations. Matt Bolton Art’s "3 Magic Dreams" is comprised of three short stories in rhyming verse with surrealist illustrations. In “Gilby,” a boy lives on... Read More

Richard Butner’s collection of speculative short stories "The Adventurists" includes puppeteers, a decades-old cat, and homicidal servants who operate in alternate realities. Grounded by concrete pop culture details, each strange... Read More

Spotlighting male fragility, the stories of Christopher Evans’s "Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth" show uncomfortable negotiations with the truth of feelings and circumstances. A jealous man wears sneakers belonging to his... Read More

Christopher Linforth’s chiseled, captivating stories follow scarred, haunted people who are struggling to heal from the Yugoslav Wars. In “The Little Girls,” a father visits the crater where his daughter was killed by a landmine,... Read More

With elements of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, the fourteen tales of Richard Thomas’s "Spontaneous Human Combustion" explore gruesome acts and fears. Set in landscapes ranging from mundane to spectacular, and from Chicago’s... Read More

The incredible merges with the everyday in Kim Fu’s short story collection "Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century". Puberty takes a fantastical turn for a group of teenage girls. Neighborhood children obsess over the accidental... Read More

Ordinary people are haunted by loss and grief in Shahriar Mandanipour’s short story collection "Seasons of Purgatory". In these stories, death is a constant companion. For some, it has already come and gone, leaving survivors to cope... Read More

The true meaning of Christmas can be hard to find in troubled times, but the stories in "Gritty Southern Christmas Anthology" are earnest in searching for it. ’Tis the season to be truthful: the diverse stories collected in "Gritty... Read More