When Reverend Harper's son is seemingly about to inherit a large fortune from his Uncle Will, Mrs. Bennet is determined to force one of her daughters upon him through a marriage proposal. The daughters and Mr. Bennet are only half-heartedly involved in Mrs. Bennet's end...

Two teenage boys fight to stay alive in the scintillating suspense novella, The Mill Trap by P.D. Platt. The mill that supported a large community has closed and the town is dying out. Fortunately, the Olympic size swimming pool is still available to the residents...

The Jellyfish Effect is a work of novella-length fiction in the apocalyptic and literary sub-genres and was penned by author Ufuk Özden. Darkly humorous and highly conceptual, this fascinating slice of life examines a future in which the fate of humanity is sealed when planet...

When the FBI comes snooping around MacIntosh's property, he is determined to get them to leave and stay away. They suspect he may be involved in KKK happenings around the town and other places nearby, but MacIntosh is adamant in his response. No. He is...

A hungry homeless man is shot and killed when he steals a bag of cupcakes in the whimsical short story, The Cases of George Alpha #1- Cupcakes (A George Alpha Short Story) by Arne Vandamme. Duncan Freight hadn't eaten in over a day and was...

Teal Dissociated is the title of a new novella by Clabe Polk. Teal is the name of the planet on which the story is set and is derived from the color of the blue-green ocean that covers most of its surface. It is a beautiful...

Ten Seconds by Lucian Lupescu attempts to map a human life using a sequence of very short or ‘flash fiction’ vignettes. The ten stories open with a fetus-eye view of birth, followed by a childhood in a troubled home, and a longer piece describing a...

Jack did not know that his life would change in a flash. An ordinary day transformed into a mysterious one when a man gave him an envelope and told him to hand it over to a tall man wearing a blue pin-stripe suit with a...

"I’m afraid. I think I’m going mad. I heard the Weaver this morning when I woke up and it spoke to me, but I was awake. Is it real? It asked me to ‘embrace’ it. I’m scared. Maybe I can forget about the Weaver, then...

The Baron’s Ward is a short story written by Isabella Berdyna Zysk. Eighteen-year-old Eustacia Rose travels to Galeva to visit her relative, the Baron of Galeva, whom she hasn’t seen in years. She wonders why he hadn’t replied to the letters she wrote while attending...