Review: Out Of The Light Of Darkness by Edward M. Donnelly
This small collection consists of six very short stories and a novella. The stories are linked by theme: death, madness, forgiveness, love. It’s primal stuff, and Donnelly handles his material gently,...
View ArticleReview: The Woodpecker Menace By Ted Olinger
This charming slice of life from autobiographical writer Ted Olinger, set in Washington State’s Key Peninsula at the bottom of Puget Sound, is truly flavorful. Beautifully illustrated with scrawly ink...
View ArticleReview: Old People by Stanley Yokell
This book is a collection of interconnected stories about just what the title says: old people. The loosely connected characters recur throughout the stories. One couple, Sam and Evie Jokel, are the...
View ArticleReview: One Short Year by Diane Dunning
In an oft riffed on passage, Blaise Pascal—probably himself riffing on Pliny the Younger— wrote, “I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.” Diane Dunning, the...
View ArticleReview: Between Eden And The Open Road By Philip Gaber
An unusual train of poetry and prose, this stimulating and raw work from Philip Gaber is compelling and almost dangerous to read – dangerous because it touches so many nerves in the reader that it...
View ArticleReview: My Friend, Freedom By Peter Eliot
My Friend, Freedom is a short story by emerging author Peter Eliot, set in futuristic, Dystopian London, following the life of Yakimoto, a Japanese immigrant, whose life is left in ruin after a failed...
View ArticleReview: Epic Sloth – Tales of the Long Crawl by Philip Gaber
Philip Gaber's new anthology "Epic Sloth - Tales of The Long Crawl" yet again hits the mark with post-Postmodern American writing.
View ArticleReview: Bookends: Stories Of Love, Loss, And Renewal by Carla Maria...
This slim volume of short stories works as something of a fugue on grief and loss, featuring fragile women at both ends of their adult lives. Strangely, the two stages are not that different, at least...
View ArticleReview: Searching For Paradise by Gerard Marconi
Cate Baum, editor of SPR reviews SPR Awards Shorts winner Searching For Paradise by Gerard Marconi.
View ArticleReview: The Bird Room by Chad Hofmann
“It’s too late for him too, said the man in a high-pitched voice, drooling in anticipation, like a dog with a bone. Eli stood frozen, his brain issued a hundred different commands that his body would...
View ArticleReview: Suicide Lettres by Jack O’Riley
Suicide Lettres, a book of twenty short stories is the brilliant and dark debut by Fargo-based writer Jack O’Riley. Starting with an unbelievably imaginative and original tale, this is the showcase of...
View ArticleReview: Infinite Ending: Ten Stories by Frank Marcopolos
Infinite Ending: Ten Stories by Frank Marcopolos is the resulting book of a challenge to write a story a month over ten months. The ten stories follow two hikers on a long journey, a college baseball...
View ArticleReview: Packing Parachutes: The Mini Musical by Robert H. Sarkissian ★ ★ ★
Humor is hard. Pathos is much easier. Show a character being chased by a monster, and if you’re good at your craft, readers will sweat and squirm. Show poor orphaned children dying of hunger, and you...
View ArticleReview: Atoms and Other Small Pieces by L. N. Nino ★★★★★
Atoms and Other Small Pieces is a short collection of fiction by author L. N. Nino, with the general theme of small details and the transition into horrible, deeply humanistic developments. The first...
View ArticleReview: TZAK: How Time Travel Began by Cindy Shearer
TZAK – How Time Travel Began by Cindy Shearer is a futuristic novella about one girl’s experience with time travel in a post-apocalyptic America, set in Yucatan, Mexico. Zola de Chichen, a Maya science...
View ArticleInsanity By Increments by Alaric Cabiling
Insanity by Increments by Alaric Cabling is a work of Gothic literary short fiction about people on the edge – isolated from other people, and from themselves.. No one acts predictably, nor does the...
View ArticleReview: I Was A Champion Then by Alfred A. Meyer ★★★★
I Was A Champion Then: Twelve Stories About Quiet Injustice, Small Rebellions and Restless Hope is a collection of essays and short stories compiled by the author’s son, Christopher Paul Meyer. A book...
View ArticleDonald Trump: Zombie Hunter by Jon Davidson
Donald Trump: Zombie Hunter is the raucous and topical satire of the man of the moment, Donald Trump, as he wins the presidency, fixes everything overnight, and then is attacked by a hoard of zombies,...
View ArticleReview: Insane-O-Tron by Nick Alverson ★★★★½
Insane-O-Tron by Nick Alverson is a collection of stories that lives up to its title: Insane. Here we find a universe where the most absurd television show imaginable becomes a number one hit (in which...
View ArticleCarousel and Other Stories by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold
Carousel and Other Stories by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold is a lyrical collection of stories about the small poetic moments in a marriage. Whether it’s a couple rekindling their passion on vacation,...
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