Type designer Ed Austin’s lonesome life is suddenly stirred by a dozen forgotten letters, written by a nineteenth-century woman named Lydia Starbird, in a barn of an old Maine farmhouse. An unusual romance has developed when Ed finally encounters Lydia herself. Is she someone Ed...

"Raspberry Beret" by Lisa A. McCombs is a story about a teenage girl who communicates her feelings in a journal. Every entry starts off as “Dear Abby” because she wrote a report on the advice columnist who shared her name. Abby was a teen who...

"Hym and Hur" is a light short story that is brilliant in its simplicity. Immortality eventually leads to boredom and when Hym and Hur come up with a prank to make their idyllic existence livelier, they do not count on the complications that might ensue....

If you thought the televised political appointments were intriguing, wait until you read David Carmell's take on what happens behind the scenes in "Appointments: A Novel of Life in Our Nation's Capital". Chronicling one Senator's efforts to get a powerful political appointment and another's Presidential...

An expedition gone wrong. The voyage to the extraordinary orphan planet has become more intriguing when the team sent there disappeared without any trace of life. It had been launched by the United States Department of Space Exploration. Captain Brynn Herris of the Colonial Navy...

In "The Naked Warrior" by Nelson O. Ottenhausen, Major General Lance Stalwardt is head of a military unit devoted to covert operations which are conducted in other countries and meant to ensure the national security of the United States. Very few people know of the...

When we first meet Hannah, she is fighting traffic on her way to her grandmother's funeral. She is bringing her grandmother's embalmed canary, which, according to family legend, alerted her grandfather to toxic fumes in the coal mine her grandmother owned. Hannah is dreading the...

Like being on an elevated train and lurching from one stop to another, "The Green Line" by E.C. Diskin takes the reader on a scary but productive journey. Abby is the lawyer in a Chicago firm who finds herself in jeopardy when she gets on...

“Hannah's Voice” by Robb Grindstaff is the story of Hannah, who decided to stop speaking when she was six years old. Her mother always asked her the same questions again and again. Other people did the same and Hannah thought she might as well stop...

Jake is a starry-eyed adolescent, who is so much in love with Erika that he cannot see that they are drifting apart. He is caught up with school and work and planning a life in their little Illinois town, with its bandstand park and its...