A Brief Excerpt in the History of Salt By Venita Blackburn
A magical tale of love, where beauty can even be found in failure....
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A Life Story By Wayne Scheer
In this literary short story, an elderly bluesman discovers dignity in his music and his life....
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A Lovely Leave By Victor J. Banis
What would it be worth, to hold a lost love once again in your arms?...
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Altenmoor Where the Dogs Dance By Mort Castle
When he needs to know the truth of things, or just if the dogs are dancing, the boy turns to his grandfather....
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Ants By M.M. De Voe
A southern gothic with a crazy rich woman who insists that intelligent ants are infesting her house....
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Beautiful, Faithful Asian Ladies Seek Friendship By Daniel Wallace
Love comes in many ways. Sometimes it even comes via airmail....
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Budd's Auto Body Angels By Robert Friedman
The worst little league baseball team in history has a season full of surprises, disasters - and heroism....
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Covered Dish Casseroles By Beth Groundwater
A woman faces grief the only way she knows how, with the offer of a covered dish casserole....
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Crazy By Laura Hartman
When you've got a crazy mother you sometimes have to cover for her, as this young girl knows all too well....
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Deep Waters By Jerry Vilhotti
How deep is the ocean of a boy's heart. Some profanity....
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Dog Universe By Diane D. Gillette
When her young niece descends on her relatively ordered life, it may take dog diplomacy to save them both....
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Faith in the Good Doctor By Kurt Bachard
A disquieting tale about human frailty, and what happens when stark reality finally intrudes on a faith-healer's belief....
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Goodbye Blue By Tracie McBride
Mum's run away from home, Dad is hurling foodstuffs, and then there's poor Blue... How will the family cope?...
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Hand Signals By Venita Blackburn
A love story that cannot be communicated with mere words, in a toy shop amidst the spirit of forced globalization....
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Highway Children By Rebecca Oliver
Hurling a rock won't fix a kid's messy life, but sometimes you just do what you do....
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Holy Spirit By Sally Bellerose
Even the loneliest and most mundane lives can be transcended....
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Hugo's Turn By Allan E. Ansorge
Heroes are oft times found in the most unusual places. Hugo Ettenthaller for one day, finds his place in the sun....
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In a Small Town By Victor J. Banis
It might have gone unnoticed in a big city, a lonely woman's private pain, but not in a small town....
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L'il Joe's Blues By Tim Wohlforth
Set back in the time when rock & roll was born, a college boy heads to a place where the blues still live. He goes for the music, but comes face to face with a killer. And all the while, L'il Joe plays on and on....
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Making the Jump By Belea T. Keeney
As his daughter and the pony she's outgrown compete in their last event together, the divorced man watches and struggles with his own aging....
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Moon on the Water By Mort Castle
You see it there on the water, the moon's reflection where the dreams all end... and you hear that lonesome saxophone....
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Not a Daffodil By Bruce Holland Rogers
A light-hearted story about an American man living in London who discovers that there are many ways to be British....
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Occupational Hazards of the Late-Night Girl By Camille Alexa
She was the late-night girl at the bookstore, that time of day when the crowds thinned and her MLGs came out. Her sad, sweet Mister Lonely Guys....
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Over Her Head By Jennifer Gennari
She's young and pregnant and her boyfriend wants to get married. The only place where she doesn't feel in over her head, is her old college pool...
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Pearls Before Swine By Caroline Dunford
A novelist worries for his sanity and his life as the real world dissolves into the increasingly bizarre imagery of his mind....
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Puppy By Michael Neal Morris
Deep in the night, a little boy needs more than his favorite stuffed animal and a drink of water....
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Sam: A Just So Story By Rebecca Gaffron
Even in the midst of, or perhaps because of, the trials and hub-bub of life, some things are "just so," like this tale of Sam, a furniture salesman, and his beloved son....
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Solar-Powered Dancing Hamburgers By Barbara Quinn
Expecting their first child, a young couple finds an unexpected memento - and comfort - among the tchotchkes of the boardwalk....
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Sometimes He Became a Coaster By J.A. Tyler
Her husband lies comatose, and she knows he'd want her to "pull the plug," and she will, really, perhaps soon....
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The Blesser By Kassandra Kelly
As if living with the ghosts of her addictions and her boyfriend's suicide aren't enough for realtor Ronnie to cope with, now she's got a House Blesser who keeps discovering ghosts in the houses she's trying to sell....
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The Distance Between Things By Gerri Leen
Lightness never came easily for Janet, and what lightness she had dissipated with each loss in her life. But now, after meeting Sam, she wonders if maybe she can find her way to a happy medium, between the light and the dark....
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The Great Little Train Robbery By Michael Bracken
For weeks the men had planned for this day, carefully timing the train as it left the station to the spot where they'd attack. They were sure nothing would go wrong--if the girl didn't get in the way. A light-hearted twist on old-time western stories....
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The Messenger By John M. Floyd
Joe Perry, a lawyer who is a bit short on scruples, meets a man who claims to be an angel and who offers him a choice....
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The Pick-Me-Up Truck By Denise Dietz
Two kids get more than they bargained for when they play a trick on an old man who has grown mean with drink. A coming-of-age story with a little violence....
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The Story Rug By McKenna Donovan
The Most Favored Weaver of the Chinese Empress hopes to escape the walls of the Exalted Palace by finding a weaver whose skills surpass her own. But at what cost?...
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There's a Story Behind That By Jean Adair
A middle-aged woman in the Midwest of the 1940s finds a new career and entertains a nation....
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Uncontested Candidate By Robert Paul Blumenstein
In this funny story, Lonnie Poteate decides it's high time someone did something to spruce up Slate Creek. He decides to run for mayor, but gathering supporters doesn't go quite as he'd hoped....
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What Were You When You Were Alive By Jim Musgrave
A Gulf War veteran wins a different kind of "Survivor Game" in San Diego, fighting prejudice against the homeless....
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Willow, Weep By Victor J. Banis
A fog shrouded lake, a faithless husband...and a sister's love....
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Workmen's Circle By Robert Friedman
A combative father and son take the first small steps towards a lasting truce in this story about birthdays, working, and learning what you already know....
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A Blind Date, Circa 1960 By Wayne Scheer
It's 1960, and Marcus Epstein is having a little trouble looking sufficiently "Italian" for his blind date....
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A Lady of Quality By Warren Bull
A young black woman in the '60s demonstrates the meaning of quality in this tale which won the Missouri Writers' Guild Award for the best short story of 2006....
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A Little Accident By Michael Neal Morris
Sherry's learning the hidden cost of using a cell phone while driving, and perhaps the price of growing up....
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Almost Paradise By Adrian Magson
Hoping to add a little zest back into their comfortable marriage, Erica talks her husband Matthew into a Mediterranean holiday. But, she did not expect to discover the exotic spice in the form of a handsome bartender....
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And Now for Something Completely Different By Wayne Scheer
In this sequel to A Naked Lady in 3B, we learn if a relatively well-intentioned quasi-stalker might find true love. Some sexual references....
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Autumn Moon By Wayne Scheer
The death of an old friend and encounter with an old girlfriend causes this family man to re-evaluate his priorities. First Place, Wild Violet's Short Story Contest 2006....
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Bird's Dead By Mort Castle
Eavesdrop in a smoky club at a time when Jelly Roll, Louis, Miles, and Prez... all the jazz greats LIVE, all except Charlie Yardbird Parker. Some profanity....
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Country Fried By Sandra Seamans
When sheriff Jolly Perkins' son is kidnapped by one of the county's troublemaking families in order to win the release of one of their kin, his best friend Seamy Brown hatches a plot to rescue him. The problem is, Seamy never does anything right....
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Crab Lines By Barbara Quinn
A woman hands down the lessons she learned from her grandparents while catching and cooking crabs. Honorable Mention in Writer's Digest contest. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize....
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Dead Man's Float By Sally Bellerose
Love, jealousy, and a shared sense of family humor....
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Deep, Dark Blue By Jess Harris
In a smoky jazz club in the dark of the night, artists lay down music and murder....
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Eating Grass By Robert Paul Blumenstein
A boy watches and learns in the slow pace of his granddaddy's store, but nothing could prepare him for the day his insufferable cousin runs afoul of an odd, angry woman....
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Flower-Crusher By Laird Long
Failed axeman Darryl Turcotte is taking the long, slow bus ride back to a sheet metal oblivion when he meets up with a girl, and things really go bad. Some profanity....
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Graveyard Days By Daniel Wallace
Sometimes love and death can walk hand in hand....
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Hemingway be Damned! By Wayne Scheer
He always admired the rugged Hemingway, but on his own weekend in the wild, he finds his experience with urban wildlife is no match for what nature can deliver. A comic tale....
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His Girl By Daniel Wallace
She watched her father watch her friends, until she felt invisible....
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Home and Away Stories By Lydia Ondrusek
Four tiny tales of life at home and away, far far away....
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I'll Call You By Mort Castle
Have you ever wondered who's there, when the phone rings in the middle of the night and all you hear is silence? Supernatural, some profanity....
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Justice By Sarah Wisseman
Scientists living in the Bioshpere begin to grow lean and hungry when a key crop fails. All but one of them that is....
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Let it Come By John Young
In the heat of a southern summer, a boy and his sister learn that, like it or not, life comes as it will....
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Man on the Run By Laird Long
A cold-weather cabbie hell-bent for sunnier climes and brighter days picks up one last fare, a bitter young woman who steers him in another direction. Some profanity....
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Moonlight Complements My Shadow By Marge Simon
Sometimes someone comes along who makes you see you're not such a bad guy after all....
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Not Ready By Wayne Scheer
Can the romance of a lifetime ever really end?...
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One-Trick Dog By Bruce Boston
Mr. Wayne's dog may have been Army Surplus, but it still worked and it did have one trick....
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Over the Rainbow By Victor J. Banis
Emerald palaces and yellow roads and red shoes...and then you grow up....
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Pirate Summer By Bryan Catherman
Young Ashton learns the mettle of a real pirate during summers spent on the fishing pier and on one old man's boat....
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Pyro By Tracie McBride
Will Julie's heart be warmed by the flames of her boyfriend's car?...
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Sliding Into Twelve By Peg Frey
The summer of her twelfth birthday, Jules nearly murders her sister - unintentionally, she hopes....
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Something in Their Eyes By Belea T. Keeney
The story of a horse rehabilitation operation that rescues men as well as horses....
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Tenths of a Second By Simon Wood
A struggling young racecar driver is given the chance to get an edge on the competition - but at what cost?...
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The Clambake By Barbara Quinn
A widow breaks free and has a sensuous encounter on the night of the town's annual clambake. Nominated for Pushcart Prize. Sexual reference....
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The Girls By Victor J. Banis
Can a dog know real love? If you doubt it, you didn't know The Girls....
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The Licensed Reverends of the No Name Church By J. Michael Shell
Jess Clairbone paid fifty dollars to become a "Licensed Reverend," and then he built a church that attracked an unlikely band of parishoners. Unfortunately, he also attracted dark doubters....
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The Naked Lady in 3B By Wayne Scheer
In this light-hearted story, a lonely guy discovers that there's nothing like accidentally catching a glimpse of a naked woman to stimulate his creativity. Some sexual references....
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice By Lydia Ondrusek
There are many kinds of magic loose in the world....
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The Year the Tree Fell on the House By Karen Bernardo
When one year holds a lifetime of tragedy, the story can be too big to tell....
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Time, the Thief By John Chabot
A tourist meets a man who tells him stories he has made up ... or has he?...
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Under the Clouds By Terry Sanville
A Rubensque girl attends her graduation dance with her hopeful boyfriend and finds herself in his arms, in her dad's car, but hanging over a cliff. Some sexual references....
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Whiskey Night By Tom Conoboy
Two old lovers, a bottle of whiskey and one long night....
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Without a Plan By Bruce Holland Rogers
Even without planning, a day's journey might lead you along interesting paths....
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