Comedy is derived from badly dealt hands in the dramatic short story collection People Making Danger. An assisted suicide and other realistic magic tricks fill Adam Fike’s farcical short story collection People Making Danger. In “The... Read More

Shepard Marley’s Minor American Authors is a work of skillful literary mimicry that balances crafted prose with absurd descriptions and dialogue. Offbeat and engaging, Shepard Marley’s Minor American Authors anthologizes the work of... Read More

Giving life to the incidental, the forgotten, and the ignored, "The Shadow of the Mammoth", Fabio Morábito’s collection of eighteen distinctive, heartbreaking, and quirky tales, skews the intricacies of existence and compassion... Read More

David Haynes’s complex short story collection Martha’s Daughter is about the everyday situations and relationships of working-class Black Americans. Set in the metropolitan flatlands of Missouri, the stories are imbued with the... Read More

Well-to-do but emotionally adrift East Coasters grapple with unsatisfying marriages, generational divides, and family secrets in Jennifer Anne Moses’s short story collection You’ve Told Me Before. In one story, a seventy-year-old... Read More

In Jennifer Bannan’s lush short story collection "Tamiami Trail", cypresses and Spanish moss evoke the Everglades. While centered on Miami, Monroe Station and the Tamiami Trail function as a mythical loci from which spores of... Read More

Gathering glittering selections from the fantasy great’s cherished oeuvre, "The Essential Patricia A. McKillip" is a radiant collection of fairy tales and modern fables. In a dragon’s tower, too many treasure-seeking men talk past... Read More

The interconnected early stories in Virginia Woolf’s "The Life of Violet" have radical perspectives on women’s friendships, independence, and places in society. Violet, a giantess inspired by Woolf’s lifelong friend Violet... Read More