Category: Short Story

Review – The Man Who Loved His Wife by Jennifer Anne Moses #shortstories #yiddish

    Synopsis   Jews being Jewish: that’s the subject of Jennifer Anne Moses’s new collection of short stories. Whether in Tel Aviv, suburban New Jersey, or the Deep South, the characters who populate the pages of The Man Who Loved His Wife grapple with God, their loved ones, fate, death, hope, Hitler, transcendence, and the 4000 […]

Excerpt – Everyone Worth Knowing by Jeff Richards @ohiowa89 #shortstories #newrelease

      Synopsis   Childhood, parenthood, love, life, and toxic masculinity are explored by various narrators in Jeff Richards’s short story collection, Everyone Worth Knowing. The men portrayed in these seventeen short stories struggle in relationships and mourn the loves of their past as they search for meaning, such as a remarried tourist who […]

Review & #Giveaway – A Wall of Bright Dead Feathers by Babette Fraser Hale #LSBBT #LiteraryFiction #ShortStories #TexasBook #TexasAuthor #CentralTexas #newrelease

    A WALL OF BRIGHT DEAD FEATHERS   By Babette Fraser Hale     Publisher: Winedale Publishing Pages: 216 Pub Date: March 1st, 2021 Categories: Short Stories / Literary Fiction   Scroll for Giveaway!         Most are newcomers to the scenic, rolling countryside of central Texas whose charms they romanticize, even […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Mystery Follows Her #cozy #mystery #anthology @Ellen__Jacobson @PenPaperPad @adrianalici

        Mystery Follows Her – A Multi-Author Cozy Mystery Collection Cozy Mysteries Publisher: Kydala Publishing, Inc. (June 24, 2020) Print Length: 426 pages   MISCHIEF, MAYHEM, OR MURDER? MYSTERY FOLLOWS HER through dangerous city streets, quaint villages, and locales across the globe. Uncover the clues with feisty female sleuths of various ages […]

Review – An Indelible Day by Cairo Marques #shortstory

    Synopsis   The story accompanies a single day of John C., a man of about thirty. In this short passage of time he has three dialogues with three different people. These dialogues, certainly, have shaped his day and, likely, will exist within him eternally.         Review   This short story […]

Spotlight – The Itsy bitsy Spyder by Apeksha Rao @apekshar #YA #shortstory

        Synopsis   What do you do when your mother feels that you don’t trust her? If you’re Samira Joshi, and your mother is an elite spy who works for RAW, the first thing you do is … hide the knives. After that, you go straight to the therapist that she has […]

Review – Dear Future Self by Lisa Becker @lisawbecker #romance #novella

    Synopsis People think they know Jase Connors: Former front man for Kings Quarters. Successful solo artist. Consummate playboy. What they don’t know is he’s tired from road life. Tired of road life. Just plain tired. When a beloved high school teacher passes away, Jase returns to his Midwestern childhood home to honor the […]

#NewRelease – Seven Sides of Self by Nancy Joie Wilkie #scifi #metaphysical

  Synopsis The stories in Seven Sides of Self explore the various sides of one’s personality: the storyteller, the skeptic, the survivor, the saint (or the sinner), the scholar, the seeker, and the savior. Through the lives of central characters such as Zarce Sun De’oggo, Sister Othrosa Vella, Jarka Moosha, and Old Mims—Nancy Joie Wilkie […]