by Trae Stewart

“It starts in the pharmacy, under lights that make everyone look guilty.”

by Scott Larimore

“My family and I were debating what my dad would do for his mid-life crisis. It had been coming on for a while now.”

by E.P. Lande

“Hiking up Mount Katahdin was not easy, but Karl had done it a number of times over the years, always with the encouragement of his father. Now, with his father’s ashes in his knapsack, Karl felt his father was with him, and that he was fulfilling his father’s last wish…”

by Ronald Wetherington

“‘This story about us is almost entirely wrong!’ I said, slapping the book closed. I was sitting with my grandson in the small Hessian village of my youth, reading him fairy tales from my German childhood.”

by Alicia DeFonzo

“Fate looked through his mirror of maps and mazes, as the grand clock tolled, echoing the centuries. The violet layers of the galaxy and moons were as they should be.”