Mario Milosevic: 53 books

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway bet his fellow writers at the Algonquin Round Table that he could write a complete short story in six words. The other writers ponied up ten bucks each, and Papa claimed the pot with possibly the saddest six words ever written: “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.” In...

Acclaimed poet and novelist Mario Milosevic offers 100 sharp tales of employment—each exactly 100 words long. Sometimes shocking, sometimes poignant, but always enlightening and entertaining, these narratives bare the souls of laborers doing what they have to do to make a living. Mario Milosevic's...

An astronaut returns from Mars and everything changes. He loses his memory, paper robots skitter everywhere, and is kept in a rudimentary cell against his will. When he escapes his incarceration he encounters an entourage of forest dwellers who promise to reveal the truth to him no matter what it...

Helen wakes up one morning with an urge to get rid of her husband, Jerry. She kicks Jerry until he leaves. As she breaks dishes, lamps, dressers, and doors, Jerry looks for a way back into his house, but his efforts are complicated by a neighbor with the same destructive urges as Helen. As Helen and...

Amanda’s aunt gives her a magic dice that will help Amanda make any decision she needs to make in her life. Amanda uses the dice to pick her career and decide if she should marry Alex or not. When her daughter Laura wants to use the dice for her own life decisions, Amanda must decide if the dice...

Tom’s parents want to teach him the value of life. They present him with a bill for his upbringing, to be paid beginning on his 18th birthday. Tom accepts the bill and takes it with him on his walk around the neighborhood. That’s when he’s confronted with a shotgun-toting neighbor afraid of...

For Clarice, football is a religion and game day is like going to church. She even dons a VR suit plugged into her team’s quarterback to enhance her sacred experience. For her husband Grant, football is little more than an amusement. He does not understand Clarice’s obsession. When Grant undertakes...

Lisa’s wife Carl brings home a cloud. The cloud messes up Lisa’s living room and is a nuisance to have around. But as time goes on, Lisa grows to like the cloud. When they find abandoned aircraft and old kites in the cloud, things start to really get weird. And when Carl disappears, Lisa knows...

Imagine paying a fine for walking across town. Or hiding an illegal marriage. Or losing your life for playing the harp. Strange crimes, dangerous activities, some from the not-so-distant past, return to life in Hidden in Crime. See why Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine says Fiction River’s crime volumes...

An ice storm. Two passengers stranded on a bus: a doctor who lost his passion for medicine long ago and a clown who no longer cares about being funny. The storm lasts well past the midnight hour. The world may choose this night to come to its end.Mario Milosevic is the author of novels, short...

Science fiction stories come in all sizes. In fact, some of the greatest SF stories have been shorts.  This box set contains 10 great science fiction short stories and short story collections. Table of Contents 1. "All the New Tomorrows" by Rebecca M. Senese 2. "Drinker" by Michael...

Forget 15 minutes of fame. What about 15 minutes of pure power? In the future everyone will have a chance to be president. The only catch is your term of office will last only one quarter of one hour. What can anyone, even the most powerful person in the world, do in 900 seconds? One man finds out...

Mario Milosevic chronicles his attempts to equal or better Edwin Abbott’s 125-year-old Flatland novel as he explains his ideas for a Flatland story set in the skin of a dead whale. Part memoir, part essay, part story, this exploration of the intricacies of creativity takes you on a road not yet...

Gary Hawken—husband, father, civil engineer, and accomplished nerd—enjoys a good life with his family in suburban Toronto. Then a crow distracts him at a traffic signal and a truck slams into his car, knocking him into a coma. Doctors doubt he will ever regain consciousness, but Gary’s wife,...