Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author

Naked, on the Edge    by Elizabeth Massie
Price: $3.99 USD. 61580 words. Language: English. Published by Crossroad Press  on May 23, 2012. Fiction » Anthologies » Horror.

Readers are thrust to the edge of darkness in this powerful collection of supernatural and psychological tales by Stoker Award-winning horror author, Elizabeth Massie. Isolation, alienation, desperation, greed, rage, regret – human conditions that leave us teetering on the brink, ready to crash forward into the abyss or step backward onto safer ground. “Beneath our hearts, our souls are naked.”
The Day Mr. Serling Wasn't Home (and other short stories)    by Kate Rose
Price: $0.99 USD. 6470 words. Language: English. Published on May 23, 2012. Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author.

A collection of short stories that look at life somewhere on the road from Lake Wobegon to The Twilight Zone.
Meet the Roberson Ladies    by Jamie Anne Richardson
Price: $2.99 USD. 13390 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author.

Meet the Roberson Ladies is a collection of six short stories following four generations of ladies as they experience love, loss, and life together.
Perfect Circles    by Simon Kewin
Price: $3.99 USD. 124500 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2012. Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author.

Collected Stories, 1999 - 2011: the fantasy short stories from Spell Circles, the SF short stories from Eccentric Orbits and the mainstream stories from Life Cycles, collected together in one super-collection.
Lies, Trout, Out and About    by Julia Jay
Price: $6.99 USD. 75000 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2012. Fiction » Humor & comedy » General.

LIES, TROUT, OUT AND ABOUT is a collection of witty and amusingly original short stories. Each features a lie, a trout or something other. From a Queen who needs to give an unusual balcony credit for its existence, to poodles given haircuts in a chip shop with disastrous results, a tiger given as a gift, to a trout which unnerves with glassy eye, and then there is the case of the missing heart.
Apocalypse Tango    by Dale Phillips
Price: $2.99 USD. 15840 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic.

How does the world end? Self-launched bombs, asteroid from space, rain of fire, alien invasion, or virus and pandemic? Maybe none of those. Maybe it's giant lobsters. Or zombies. Here are five different takes on the end of the world-- as we know it. It's a tango done at the Apocalypse, dancing as the race of Man comes to a close. Come take a whirl.
Mad Dash: A Short Story    by Aron White
Price: $0.99 USD. 2270 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author.

Staying up late, sleeping in and cutting class. No big deal unless losing a couple hundred dollars is the consequence. Don’t want to lose the cash? Then it’s time to get out of bed, throw on your clothes and abandon any semblance of dignity to do whatever it takes to get to school on time. Length: 2,260 words.
Urban Guerrillas of a Different Kind    by Ross Doughty
Price: $2.99 USD. 77320 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2012. Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author.

These stories are set in Spain, Scotland, France and Prague as well as New Zealand, Australia, Mexico and the US. The writing style varies from magic realism in Vortex, to a gothic conclusion in Kafka's Kafe, and the elegantly historical story of Phantom Galleon. The book derives its title from the personal and communal conflicts that punctuate urban society - and how they are resolved.
Six Short Tales: New Beginnings    by Rosa Turner Boschen
Price: $1.99 USD. 19500 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2012. Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author.

Everybody wants to start over sometime and the characters from Six Short Tales: New Beginnings are no different. From a murderous female flautist to an overwrought fiction writer and an unfaithful young wife, each protagonist has reached the point where something's gotta give...
Insomnia: Paranormal Tales, Science Fiction, and Horror    by Saul Tanpepper
Price: $4.99 USD. 85530 words. Language: English. Published on May 18, 2012. Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author.

Insomnia (n) an inability to sleep; a state of agitated wakefulness, often as a result of troubling thoughts. This collection includes the following titles: The Grin * The Scenario Egg * A Thing for Zombies * Reached in Error * Raise the Dead * The Sacrifices We Make * The Promises We Keep. Approximately 85000 words. Some material may not be appropriate for readers younger than 14.