Short Stories

A Dixie Christmas: Fun, Sexy, Southern Holiday Short Stories

When I was looking for holiday stories, romances of one kind or another were the bulk of what I found. The book cover for A Dixie Christmas by bestselling author Sandra Hill was so whimsical that I couldn’t resist. This is a collection of two funny, sexy, Southern Christmas short stories that seem more like [...]

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A Midwinter Fantasy: Three Diverse Holiday Fantasies

Fantasy & Supernatural

You know I’m a sucker for a beautiful book cover and A Midwinter Fantasy’s book cover made me think of wintery fairy tales, so of course I had to snag a copy to see what it was all about. I’ve had it since September and I was dying to dig into it but I refuse [...]

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A Vampire for Christmas: What Do You Want for Christmas?

Fantasy & Supernatural

We all need some help getting into the holiday spirit sometimes, so at least once a week throughout the holidays you’ll be seeing a holiday related novel featured here. At the same time, ramping up gradually to the more sentimental stories seems like a good idea. For that reason, we’re featuring more unusual holiday stories [...]

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Holidays in Heck: Family Vacations Make War Corresponding Look Easy

Fiction

I have scouted out a bunch of interesting looking holiday-themed books for us this year. Every week between now and Christmas, we’ll be reviewing a holiday novel. When I found P.J. O’Rourke’s Holidays in Heck, I thought it sounded like a fun collection of short stories for the holidays. I suspect most of us have [...]

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Tales of the New World: Unique Stories of Known and Unknown Explorers

Fiction

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I asked for an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Sabina Murray’s Tales of the New World but the title sounded enticing. For some reason, and this is embarrassing to admit, I didn’t even realize it was a collection of short stories until I had already begun to read. [...]

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Before the End, After the Beginning: Short Stories from Dagoberto Gilb

Cross Cultural

Dagoberto Gilb is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. In 2009, he suffered a stroke at his home in Austen, TX. I’ve been told it took six months for him to be able to begin to physically write again. Over the many long months it took for him to recover, he did what [...]

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