Short stories and more, with dark coffee and light to heavy snow

I've always enjoyed short stories and I've read quite a few this long weekend while trapped indoors by the snow. (I've read some r-e-a-l-l-y long ones too...) So here are some more book reviews to warm your kindles, nooks and kobos while you drink hot coffee (or cocoa, or tea) and wait for the snow to melt.

Giant Tales from the Misty Swamp, by Heather Marie Schuldt and others offers a fine collection of three-minute stories, all short, all different, nicely collected, intriguing connected with...