Smoking Pen Press: 8 books

Fifteen short stories involving pets.  But don't think for a moment that you'll "See Spot Run", or that Lassie will save her master who's fallen in the well. Those are common pet tales, and these are Uncommon Pet Tales.  Within this collection, you'll find a little bit of romance, a little...

The twelve short stories presented in A Bit of A Twist are each mostly normal and ordinary, but somewhere in the story is a twist. In "David's Not Here", "Marriage Counselor", "Down Home", "River Road", "Happily Ever After", and "Blind Date",...

The Ancient is an anthology of short stories, all revolving around the notion of Aladdin's Lamp. Some of these stories use an actual lamp, some of them use a different object. But in each story, the object has some unusual magical aspect that stays with it from one person to the next. While...

An anthology of 18 short romance stories.  Not love stories, although some of them do include aspects of that.  But whereas love stories are often sad, each of the selections in A Wink and a Smile has either a 'happily-ever-after' ending, or at least a strong suggestion that this is where...

A Step Outside of Normal presents seven situations which are almost, but not quite, normal. Not really supernatural, not really fantasy, not really general fiction. Instead, they’re each a little bit “off”. And short, to suit your busy lifestyle. Hell of a Day is about a young man who has to...

Josie Skye is one of the most accurate meteorologists in the country – but not everyone considers that a good thing.  When weather forecasters and others start disappearing or dying and Josie fears she's one of the targets, she teams up with weather researcher, Oliver Burns, to try to find some...

This charming collection of short stories about vampires, zombies, ghosts, a muse, and a witch, is the first volume in this two-volume anthology in the Read on the Run series. There are some stories that will scare you, some that will make you a laugh, and some that might make you shed a tear or two.

The six romances included in this anthology have quirky characters, or quirky locations, or quirky situations.  You'll find a ghost and a new homeowner, a spaceship captain and her cartographer, a window designer and high school beau, a banker and a baker, two vampire hunters, and some supernatural...