Flash Fiction Books

This relatively short e-book is a collection of 34 flash fiction pieces written from mid-July to Labour Day drawing from random writing prompts used to overcome a summer writing drought.For example, the second story in the collection started with the prompt to write a 200-word epic set 200 years...

Charles Bukowski, in his poem so you want to be a writer?, gave a laundry list of things to consider if you want to be a writer.Perhaps there should be such a list for readers.Not your casual reader of course. Not someone who is perusing a newspaper or diving into a typical ‘best seller’ to...

It is a strange thing to think that there is a body of men in Great Britain, the majority of whom have never, since their boyhood, seen the corn in the fields. It is the case with the whale-fishers of Peterhead. They begin their hard life very early as boys or ordinary seamen, and from that time...

Robert Johnson was an essentially commonplace man, with no feature to distinguish him from a million others. He was pale of face, ordinary in looks, neutral in opinions, thirty years of age, and a married man. By trade he was a gentleman’s outfitter in the New North Road, and the competition of...

A book The Star by H. G. Wells

Hoppy Toad was a wee bit of a toad who had only recently seen the light of day. One day he strayed away from his home—a hole in the ground, at the roots of a tree. In doing so he disobeyed Ma Toad who told him to play close to his home. He hopped along through the woods, often stopping for a...

Guaranteed—Forever! by Frank M. Robinson

Journey for the Brave by Alan Edward Nourse

A medium named Miriam confessed all her paranormal and supernatural occurrences not afraid to hold anything back. Miriam has had a rough life and learned at the young age of five that she’s had a gift. She kept this gift a secret all her life until she reveals the truth to her family.

Meet Maggie Swanson’s boys  One of them is really smart, the other one not so much. Learn about I.Q. and its consequences on personality and character. The tale of two brothers in the psychology world shows what intelligence really is or what it could be when profound understanding trumps...