These fables are designed to help children make sense of the world around them and do so in a quaint, charming, and soothing way. Steve Michael Reedy’s More Tales for Your Monkey’s Mind is a charming and intelligent collection of... Read More

Klonaris uses memory and dialogue as valuable tools to convey her stories, introducing a compelling voice to short fiction. The characters in Helen Klonaris’s If I Had Wings grow up in the Greek-Bahamian neighborhoods of the Bahamas, a... Read More

These voices possess a fragile resilience even as they surrender themselves to fate, new knowledge, and other bodies. Adolescents and adults on the brink of critical self-awareness define "What Counts as Love", winner of the John Simmons... Read More

The material may be dark, but Skinner’s deadpan delivery keeps it funny. In his short story collection, "A Thousand Distant Radios", Woody Skinner showcases a deft sense of humor, a distinctive voice, and clever, imaginative premises.... Read More

Throughout these stories, emotional storms gather in original, biting scenes. In China Girl: And Other Stories, Ho Lin examines the unease of living with memories: some brutal, others fleeting, each written with impressive foreboding.... Read More

Kellie Wells seems never to have met a sentence she couldn’t enhance, a list she couldn’t extend, or a story she couldn’t send airborne. The fifteen contemporary fables of underdogs, oddballs, and misanthropes in Kellie Wells’s... Read More

Bulkin’s enormous imagination is on full display here: trippy, nightmarish, and unforgettable. Nadia Bulkin’s thirteen stories are as diverse in their themes as they are in their settings, yet they piece together excellently to... Read More

Sequeira’s short stories braid graceful language with brilliant idiosyncrasies. Jessica Sequeira’s "Rhombus and Oval" enchants with short stories that examine mysteries. From pure wonderment to reflections on a virtual, automated... Read More