After Dinner Conversation: Nature of Reality Is Out!

Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics exploring the nature of reality and perceptions. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions. Edition Editor - Christi Mancha

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2023 Pushcart Nominations

One of the coolest things we get to do each year, is nominate short stories we have published for awards. We just submitted the following stories we have (or will soon) publish for the 2023 Pushcart Prize.

  • Drag Brunch: Hannah's gay friend is excluded from her bachelorette party.  (November, 2023)(Written by Mark Bessen)

  • The Pool: A good-willed apartment complex owner deals with ever-complaining tenants as she attempts community improvements. (September, 2023) (Written by Celia Lisset Alvarez)

  • Final Determination: A murder victim is waiting in the afterlife and is given the chance to decide to the eternal fate of her recently deceased killer. (May, 2023) (Written by Lea Pounds)

  • Playing God: Jack is abducted by the Zoomarians who ask him to play God, and fix the moral failings of humanity. (April, 2023) (Written by Ilan Herman)

  • Glad All Over: An elderly man helps his fellow season-ticket holder with his existential crisis with philosophy lessons. (March, 2023) (Written by Lee Dawkins)

  • One Hour: A journalist interviews the owner of a strange restaurant and has a meal that causes him to question his life.  (January, 2023) (Written by Todd Sullivan)

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140,000 Amazon Downloads!

We were just looking over our Amazon stats and thought we would share some info we came across. We published our first short story on Amazon on August 22, 2019. We have, to date, published 130 books and magazine editions on Amazon. In total, our free/paid books and magazines have been downloaded 141,937 times!

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