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October 19, 2020

THE ODD AND THE STRANGE: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

By Harvey Havel
Short Stories
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

THE ODD AND THE STRANGE by Harvey Havel is a collection of urban tales that toe the line of reality.

April 29, 2020

THE CHAMPAGNE TALES

By Michael Amon
Fiction, Short Stories
Rating:
2.7 / 5.0

Ten different stories are connected by a love of the bubbly stuff in THE CHAMPAGNE TALES.

IR Approved
January 22, 2020

UNTOLD MAYHEM: An Assortment of Violence

By Mark Tullius
Fiction, Short Stories
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

UNTOLD MAYHEM is a collection of short horror stories, each of which revolves around or culminates in an act of violence. Some feature supernatural specters...

IR Approved
November 15, 2019

GRACE: STORIES AND A NOVELLA

By Dan Burns
Fiction, Short Stories
Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

Triumphs born of human frailties stand in testament to the rewards of soul work in GRACE: STORIES AND A NOVELLA.

November 11, 2019

TOMBOLA

By Paul Purnell
Fiction, Short Stories
Rating:
3.0 / 5.0

TOMBOLA includes forty-three stories packed tightly into 300 pages, ranging from crime fiction to vignettes, to comedy, slice-of-life and dramatic pieces. The setting ranges from...

IR Approved
November 8, 2019

HOLDING ON

By Richard Snodgrass
Fiction, Short Stories
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

HOLDING ON, the latest in an eight-book series, recounts the good, the bad, and the ugly in the two-hundred year history of a struggling mill...

IR Approved
September 25, 2019

SUBTERRANEAN LIVING

By John Caperton
Fiction, Short Stories
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

SUBTERRANEAN LIVING is a collection of short stories about pivotal moments in the lives of different modern day Americans.

July 12, 2019

FROST HEAVES

By T. Stores
Short Stories
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

FROST HEAVES is a collection of linked short stories that form a portrait of rural life in today's Vermont.

May 22, 2019

A MAGNET TO A FLAME

By Shawn Patrick Cooke
Fiction, Short Stories
Rating:
3.8 / 5.0

In A MAGNET TO A FLAME, Shawn Patrick Cooke toys with the delicate line between choice and possibility through 28 short stories and 3 poems.

IR Approved
May 6, 2019

TODAY, TOMORROW, ALWAYS

By Editors at Margery de Brus
Fiction, Short Stories
Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

A series of short stories, ranging from the profoundly tragic to the cynically comedic,  all seeking to explore profound human questions.

November 28, 2018

THE MIDNIGHT CABARET

By Benjamin Roque
Fiction, Short Stories
Rating:
3.0 / 5.0

THE MIDNIGHT CABARET is a set of alternately chilling, philosophical, and sentimental short stories.

IR Approved
October 10, 2018

THYLACINE DREAMS

By Jonathan Maas
Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

THYLACINE DREAMS is a collection of short stories that explore what it's like to be human - or not.

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