Ten years old is the worst age ever. Betsy’s too young to be interested in boys and too old not to be scared of them. She’s too young to drive or get a job and too old to play with her Chatty Cathy. And while she’s smart enough to realize that every member of her family is crazy, she hasn’t a clue how to fix them.
The tragedies of the worst winter in Jamestown’s history haunts one family nearly four hundred years later.
This story follows Pritchard McCovey as he reflects on moments of his life, bouncing between the good times and the bad.
Ruth must clean out her deceased Aunt Fanny’s apartment and in the process uncovers the truth about Fanny’s “married man” and how an affair ended in a murder.
In this fiction piece by Josh Woods, a professor in Missouri buys a glossy black wooden bench adorned with ornate letters of the Persian alphabet at a garage sale for a dollar. The catch? The owner says it’s cursed.
Laura Del Col Brown’s short story, “The Silent Monkeys,” captures radiance in comforting tokens of silence.
A family trip to the museum reveals a secret about a woman’s ancestry in Rob Magnuson Smith’s chilling story.
