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Dodo Collections brings you another classic from William Charles Scully, ‘Kafir Stories: Seven Short Stories’. Kafir Stories contains stories that are generally sympathetic to the perspective of aboriginal African peoples of South Africa. The South African writer Herman Charles Bosman is...

From the introduction: These are eight short stories I wrote over the past twenty years or so. Two of them, Wrong Gates, and Let There Be Lights, were both published in online magazines. Most of the rest have been showcased on my Authorsden website. Some of these can be categorized as horror,...

My Anthology: Eight short science fiction stories. Space ghosts that attempt to trap a ship and its crew; mutant beetles that create electrical short circuits aboard a space station; Gold stealing space pirates that put a planet to sleep; telepathic sand crawlers control a village of farmers; a young...

Diaries of My Past Lives - Is a collection of short stories inspired by the events from the authors life. They are easily recognized as hospital stories, war related stories, stories from the North and others. Growing up under specific circumstances she has been watching the world under a microscope...

Alien Dimensions is a science fiction short stories anthology series featuring amazing authors from around the world. Previous issues have featured stories about extraterrestrials, clones, robots and androids, invasion and colonization, cyberpunk and space opera, first contact, genetic manipulation,...

Set in a future where what it means to be human is defined by each individual, where posthumans augment their minds and bodies to assume forms sometimes unrecognizable as human; where Earth is a sweltering hole controlled by disorganized factions of TruHumans bent upon eradicating posthumanity from...

From the author of fantasy novel "Arianna's Tale" come ten new short stories set in the magickal world of Vorima. These stories, featuring the main characters introduced in "Arianna's Tale," give the reader further insight into the characters and aid in the understanding of the...

Since when did love stories only belong to the young? Did they have to end the moment one got married, had children and got saddled with a mortgage? Sometimes, Esme forgets... until Evan reminds her that some love stories are meant to last forever. Other stories in this updated collection: His...

Wicked Strange: A Collection of Short Stories allows the reader to enter a world that tickles the imagination, where the impossible becomes possible, and wishes really do come true. The stories stretch from the paranormal to the fringes of futuristic science. You will meet Pennewyk, a cat who has...

Pure Romance Collection Part One: 4 Sweet Romance Short Stories. Please note that each of these stories can be bought as a standalone separate story. Total word count 23,267. To Love a Difficult Man Natalie works as a personal assistant for Sam Stewart, a famous and successful...

There are times when a person’s life changes forever on one decision or action. Whether the choice is on impulse or well thought out, innocuous or major, these short stories of the paranormal and science fiction explores the actions and consequences of those decisions. Some of the stories are: The...

Do you love Italy? Here are some word-sketches from my travels in Tuscany.The Italian observations are interwoven with short stories. I  use techniques of contemporary fiction to explore the psychology of relationships and problems of self-identity, so you can see how the other characters in the stories in their different ways try to deal with issues of relationships.

An empty chair can mean many things. Symbolic perhaps – a memorial for a loved one now gone. Or it can be welcoming and comfortable, waiting for someone to sit and relax. There again, it could be so uncomfortable that no one wants to sit in it anyway! Sometimes people are defined by their chair....

William Fitzgerald Jenkins is an obscure name in literary circles, and it certainly doesnt seem appropriate for an author who wrote thousands of short stories in science fiction, alternate fantasy, and other types of weird fiction genres. Perhaps thats why Jenkins chose a more eccentric pen name, Murray...