Written by Kaitlin Hayes – Jonesie was abandoned twice before he found me. His first owner loved him, as far as I can tell, since he got all his vaccines and grew up with good musculature and a healthy coat; but still, one day Jonesie was surrendered to a shelter.Continue Reading
Written by Eddie LeShure – Imagine meeting a family that included not only somebody who was kidnapped during a civil war, but also the person who literally “wrote the book on” training guerrillas? How about a family including an individual whose godfather is Fidel Castro, plus someone else who marriedContinue Reading
Written by RF Wilson – For our hair-raising Halloween holiday I’m re-posting Bob’s great story. — I couldn’t sleep. Few of us can. That’s the deal. Wandering around, night after night after night. It’s not like we have homes to go to where we could close the blinds to shutContinue Reading
Written by RF Wilson – Detective Winston Fair is investigating the disappearance of Phyllis Rivers, a partner in the real estate firm of Nyswanger and Rivers. She was last seen leaving her office to show an old house in the northern reaches of the county. In the course of hisContinue Reading
Written by Ashley English – I have a sweet tooth. I have never tried to hide this, nor have I ever felt any guilt or shame surrounding it, although I do recall sympathizing with Miranda on Sex and the City when she squirted Windex at a cake she had thrown inContinue Reading
Written by Tom Davis – Uncle Bud didn’t move. The pool of blood around him grew larger with each heart beat. He wore nothing except for a towel covering his feet. Aunt Josie couldn’t do anything but hiccup and cry. Beau, hiding under the sewing machine table, thumped his tail against theContinue Reading
Written by Eddie LeShure – While on a spiritual pilgrimage in Asia years back, Eddie found himself in Calcutta and decided to go for a walk. What happened that day was beyond his imagining, as you can see. Calcutta, India: March 7, 1992 – Saturday Afternoon As I rode inContinue Reading
Written by Terry Ward – In Jacksonville, Florida where I grew up there was a man we called The Train Man. We would see him downtown when we rode the city bus from our neighborhood on a thirty minute (ten cent) ride to watch a movie at the Florida Theatre, aContinue Reading
Written by Celia Miles – Holly twisted the thread connecting the purple button on her blazer cuff and kept twisting it, concentrating on its double thickness, determined to conquer, to separate the button from its allotted space. She knew that the woman sitting opposite had been watching for some time, maybeContinue Reading
