Flyleaf Inc : 5 books

"Once upon a time, way back in the 1950s, when there was no cyber or cable anything and the cars were all big and boxy, there was a little girl who lived wither mother and father, just the three of them, in a fine brick house on the Far South Side of Chicago. (Only Negro people, as they called themselves...

"She rubbed her eyes twice when she saw the hand. It lay between the rows of collard greens, gray and waxen, cut clean at the wrist, with dull fingernails, clenched fingers, and clotted blood around the clean, white bone. It looked like something for sale at a Halloween store, something trickster...

The second of seven pairs of short stories in the Dreams of an Insomniac Collection. Tragic, honest, and chilling, these stories will make you pause before the next time you ask the innocent question: what if?

The first of seven pairs of short stories by Matthew Jankiewicz. The first short story, "Dandelions", is akin to the style of magical realism, a genre popularized by Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, and Alice Hoffman. The second short story, "Newton's Shop of Magical &...

Joseph and Mary Lou were waiting to have a child until they were better prepared financially, among other personal reasons. Now their decision, or anyone else’s decision, to have a child just became more complicated by a government edict. The government is passing a law requiring a mandatory vasectomy...