Title: Bodies of Water Author: Marylee MacDonald Genre: Short Stories Fernando Romero is at a crossroads in his life, a dark place where suicide increasingly seems a viable option. The future looks particularly bleak as his father is succumbing to cancer and the nearby lake, which provides many jobs and opportunities, is drying… Read More Bodies of Water – Editorial Review
Title: The Warning Signs—Tales of Horror and Dark Fantasy Author: M. Ainihi Genre: Horror / Fantasy The Warning Signs presents twelve short tales, six of horror and six of fantasy, structured in three parts, linked by the subtly recurring motif of admonition.
Title: The Doctor’s Dilemma Author: Daly Walker Genre: Short story anthology The coronavirus pandemic has brought medical professionals to the center of attention on the world stage. There has never been more of an awareness of the daily struggles or a greater interest in the day-to-day life in a hospital environment.
Title: A Dry Heat: Collected Stories Author: Gregory D. Williams Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories A Dry Heat is a compilation of nine short stories separated into three parts that roughly correspond to early adolescence, young adulthood, and middle/late- age.
Robert Earle’s admirable new collection of short stories ‘tells the stories of women everywhere from New Mexico to Melbourne. They are young and old. Their lives are the landscape of the heart.’ As described by the publisher, that is an ambitious undertaking for any writer – especially perhaps for a male writer – and… Read More She Receives the Night – Book Review
Themes of identity and belonging disturb the calm surface of Wendy Brandmark’s collection of short stories, which are set in Denver, New York and Boston in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Many of the stories concern characters who have been displaced geographically and emotionally: young or old, successful or unsuccessful, their lives have slipped… Read More He Runs the Moon – Book Review
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