The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde is a classic fairy about a giant who builds a wall around his beautiful garden to keep children out, leading to perpetual winter in his garden until a special child’s love melts his heart, bringing spring back and teaching him the value of generosity and forgiveness. The story is…
Anton Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog is a nuanced short story about Dmitri Gurov, a disillusioned married banker, and Anna Sergeyevna, a young married woman, who begin an affair while vacationing in Yalta. What starts as a casual fling transforms into deep, mutual love, forcing them to confront the emptiness of their conventional lives…
The Night the Ghost Got In by James Thurber is one of our favorite stories from the man who practically put the New Yorker on the map. That’s right, back then magazines like the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post and Colliers were jam-packed with short stories. Today, as Vonnegut often said, you couldn’t even…
Can you believe it? With the hundreds of stories here on Real Flashbytes, we don’t have any Poe. Not one story. So, no better way to start things off than with the Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, circa. 1843. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe is one of the best known stories ever.…
Outpost 31 South Pole – Fiction, Novellas, Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror Outpost 31 is an independent publisher and small press located in Enderby Land, Antarctica. Not exactly the South Pole, but close enough. Outpost 31 publishes the grossest and most gruesome titles, fiction mainly in the categories of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. Outpost 31 is an…
Two Dollar Radio Novels, SS, Non-fiction, Memoir, Satire, All Genres twodollarradio.com twodollarradio.com/pages/submissions brett@twodollarradio.com Two Dollar Radio is a family-run, independent publisher based in Columbus, Ohio. Specializing in literary fiction, it was founded in 2005 by husband-and-wife team Eric Obenauf and Eliza Jane Wood-Obenauf, with Brian Obenauf. In 2013, they launched their micro-budget film division, Two…
While the Auto Waits by O. Henry is a famous short story about two strangers who meet in a park and pretend to be from different social classes, only to reveal their true identities in a classic twist ending: the seemingly wealthy woman is a cashier, and the man pretending to be a humble worker…
Ted Bundy was a rock star. He’s the only serial killer ever to escape prison; and he did it not just once, but twice. He’s also the only serial killer brave enough to wear a bowtie in public. Imagine, Ted Bundy free after all these years… They let Ted Bundy out of jail the other…
Cooper Dillon Books Poetry store.cooperdillon.com editors@cooperdillon.com About Cooper Dillon Books Founded in 2009 and based in San Diego, Cooper Dillon publishes full-length and chapbook poetry collections in perfect-bound paperback editions. Cooper Dillon publishes poetry exclusively. They do not run contests, accept grants, donations, or financial support from any institutions. Thank you. Cooper Dillon Books Submissions…
Finishing Line Press USA – Fiction, Non-fiction, Children’s, Poetry, Women’s inishinglinepress.com finishingbooks@aol.com About Finishing Line Press Finishing Line Press is an award-winning, small press publisher. Finishing Line Press is the home of the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Series, the New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry, the Finishing Line Press Prize in Poetry, The Donna Wolf-Palacio…
