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Short Story #2 from the Wedding Flirts! collection (10,000 words) Micki’s always the bridesmaid—and she likes it that way. She’s been burned so many times she just wants fun, not a relationship. Too bad her hot groomsman is looking for love, not a one-night stand. Is he the right guy...

If I Had My Way is a collection of ten short stories. Some are surprising and some are subtle. This splendid collection of short stories begins with Sunshine. A story of a young girl coming into her own as a young woman on her graduation day. Tandrin Drive is the tragic tale of a dysfunctional family...

Short story #4 from the Wedding Flirts! collection (8,000 words) Kelly’s best bud is tying the knot with bridezilla. But before she can be in the bridal party, she has to audition for the honor. There’s one bright spot in the fiasco—the bride’s hot, funny, stepbrother. Can Kelly find...

In his stories and in such landmark novels as Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) defied literary propriety and broke new ground in American fiction by focusing on life as it is, rather than as it ought to be. Sherwood Anderson, introducing a collection of Dreiser...

Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most revered contemporary American writers, having won numerous awards and selling millions of copies. Oates’s collections for The Mysterious Press continue to garner more and more awards attention: "The Woman in the Window" from Night-Gaunts has already been...

Short story #1 from the Wedding Flirts! collection (13,000 words.) When Samantha’s invited to a frenemey’s wedding, she can’t show up dateless and pathetic—even though she is dateless and pathetic. So, Sam hires a hottie to pose as her perfect fiancé. But when he needs her to return...

A UFO debunker bites off more than he can chew. A man faces an unusual test for an orbital job. This collection of six flash fiction and short-short stories each shows a glimpse of a possible future of Earth. Aliens, space travel, immortality. Each of the six stories is set on Earth. All six...

Class Flirt (Short story #2 from Reunion Flirts! 10,000 words) Martina Blake is a no-nonsense accountant who has worked hard to put the title of Class Flirt behind her—along with a very big and very public mistake. She’s determined to show her classmates they were wrong about her. Martina...

Shoppers at a car dealership have an unusual experience with the automobiles on display.Angela receives a shock when she goes to a popular restaurant.Siblings Steve and Lara are surprised at tea.Kara breaks up with her boyfriend Lance in the library. After the experience she joins...

“A richness of language and observation pervades this collection of short stories by a black writer about real black people” (The New York Times Book Review).   Award-winning playwright Ed Bullins received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for his play The Taking of Miss Janie, and is also...

Four short stories filled with romance at Christmas time. The Present A girl has to break the news to her sister’s boyfriend that he’s being dumped–on Christmas Eve– she finds herself a pawn for the boyfriend’s revenge. Sing A Christmas Carol A singing group’s decision to...

“The promise implicit in an anthology is that it aspires to present something different, unexpected” ~ Joyce Carol Oates (Introduction to The Oxford Book of American Short Stories) From the classical form of 'The Weight of a Feather', first published by The Huffington Post (2013), to the...

A short story by mystery author Stacy Juba. When Gregg accidentally discovers his neighbor's lingerie collection drip-drying in her shower, he stares in fascination at a scene that looks like laundry day at the whorehouse. After his neighbor is found dead - strangled with her own fishnet stocking...

Written with descriptive prose, this collection of short stories delves into the darker side of human nature pertaining to topics such as fear, love, mental illness and aging.