Short Stories from Faraway Places II by Kevin O’Flaherty is a collection of short stories set in varied locations and time periods, examining characters’ interactions with their environments and communities. In Bizi Posa, the story follows Rory in Bilbao as he moves through relationships, work,...

The Book of Outcasts by Matt Nagin presents a collection of stories that all read independently but share a creative leitmotif of testing the boundaries of people in extreme, often horrifying, realities. In A Triumph of Humanity, a male patient undergoes invasive medical care while...

When The Eagle Falls by Jonathan Flannery opens with a bombing at the German Reichstag during a World War I centenary ceremony, killing several world leaders and plunging nations into chaos. As neo-Nazi cells claim responsibility, George Strome, a Berlin-based physics professor, wrestles with a...

War Never Ends by Anthony Pond is a soldier’s story of their war. Sergeant David Jordan is in a French hospital, wounded during WWII. The morphine between surgeries has sent him back to the front, reliving his war, from the training camp in Florida to...

Sienna Larsen is a typical bored college student on semester break. It’s too hot to go out and do anything, and she’s sick of doomscrolling. Then she stumbles upon a video of the reopening of an old theme park called Sokolov Park. The name triggers...

The End of All Things by Eleanor Wells is the story of Emma, a young woman thinking about her life and the friendships that have shaped her past and ultimately who she has become. Set in Vermont, the narrative shifts between the present and her...

Paintings: Love by Joe Trabocco is a moving exploration of the many forms love takes throughout a lifetime. Through a series of interconnected stories, Trabocco captures the quiet, often unspoken moments that define relationships, those fleeting instances of connection, longing, and endurance that linger long...

Our Lifelong Dreams by Eleanor Wells begins with Allison, a young woman who awakens in an unfamiliar place with no memory of her past, yet she feels like there’s somewhere important she needs to be. Mysterious voices give clues that guide her on a surreal...

Cristo & The Werewolf Dinner by Angus Bessai is a fantasy about a disgraced warrior dwarf, Cristo. The bounty hunter can’t believe his luck when he’s offered one hundred gold pieces to attend a noble’s birthday party. The duke’s daughter is turning ten, and she...

Something Borrowed by Luis Ammerman takes the reader on a journey of reconnection with a love and a life that disappeared for a time when paths divided and each person went their own way, looking for love, companionship, and ever after, but in the wrong...