Short-Story.Me! Best Genre Short Stories #1 (Short-Story.Me! Best New Short Story Anthology) [Kindle Edition]

Dixon Palmer (Editor), Larry Crain (Editor)

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Product Description

24 of the Best Literary Genre short stories selected from Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery and Science Fiction. The offbeat premises, intriguing ideas and excitement of Genre Fiction are mixed with the depth and characters of Literary Fiction. The category of Literary Fiction is growing quickly because it has characteristics that appeal to any reader. The stories in this anthology are not categorized by genre, so you don’t know what to expect until you are engrossed in each story. If you’re used to reading only one genre, you may be surprised that you like other, or overlapping, genres when you are exposed to quality examples.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 330 KB
• Publisher: Short-Story.Me! Genre Fiction (April 2, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003F777ZQ
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #491,206 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We liked it, June 3, 2010

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Jack Straw - See all my reviews

This review is from: Short-Story.Me! Best Genre Short Stories #1 (Short-Story.Me! Best New Short Story Anthology) (Kindle Edition)

I bought this mostly because it was a lot of stories for not much money. I enjoyed it so much my wife read it too. We give it four thumbs up.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good start, but needs a bit of polish., March 8, 2011

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Bridgette Dooley - See all my reviews

This review is from: Short-Story.Me! Best Genre Short Stories #1 (Short-Story.Me! Best New Short Story Anthology) (Kindle Edition)

I was given this collection as a gift. These short stories are all on the www.short-story.me web e-zine. The stories on the website are free, so I'm not sure why you would purchase this anthology unless you are mother to one of the authors. Now, to be fair, if you just want/need a collection of short stories to read, and you have no internet access, then this anthology will fit those requirements. I found the stories within the range of bad cliches/puns to really interesting/good story telling. That often happens with anthologies. Unfortunately for this anthology, not many stood out as memorable or thought provoking.

You should go to the website, and read a few, and judge for yourself before you buy.

What I found most disappointing was this anthology lists two editors, but I cringed at what appeared to be a lack of editing throughout. Obvious punctuation, typo, and grammar boo-boo's, to really big element of fiction issues like; point of view slips, repeated words, telling, over use of the verb "to be", and characters doing a lot of "looking and sighing" throughout the story. I guess novice writers do these things, and that's okay, but I thought an "editor" helped a writer clean their writing up a bit before publishing. I'm not a professional writer, but I'm a voracious reader, and I know a good story, and some thoughtful editing, can make the whole thing work. For me it was distracting, (In one story most all the paragraphs started with "he" or "she") and took me right out of the "not as well written" stories.

It's a good start, some of the stories are entertaining, but overall as an anthology someone might pay money for, it needs some additional editorial polish.