Category: Short Stories

Jayne Martin’s Tender Cuts is one of my first encounters with flash fiction. We’re talking very short stories: just a page, usually; sometimes only…

The way Nancy Joie Wilkie executed the overarching theme of Seven Sides of Self is one of the strongest I’ve read. Short story collections…

Each short chapter of Ghosts of You begins with the line: “The thing about being the murdered _____ is you set the plot in…

For the first four stories in Masterworks, Jacobs’ writing is fast-paced and to-the-point, yet vibrantly descriptive. Vibrant like when you dream in color and…

Short story anthologies can be hit or miss, especially ones that dare to include a variety of genres, as Escape! from the Writing Bloc…

Josh Denslow’s short story collection Not Everyone Is Special didn’t start off on the best foot with me. There were a number of moments…

  I’m a sucker for short story collections, and By the Wayside hit the spot. Many of these stories are powerful slices of life. Some…