Synopsis: As the story opens, four women are standing on the precipice. Kat McClintock, a divorced mother of two sons, is interviewing for a position as a sommelier with a…
Synopsis: It’s hard to imagine any relationship more complicated than that of sisters, except possibly that of twin sisters. Author Sarah Pekkanen’s debut novel, The Opposite of Me, is the…
Synopsis: Catherine Lambert loves fashion and the law. One of only three applicants, out of a pool of thirty, selected to transfer from Edwards & White’s Paris office to its…
Synopsis: Cassie Beaumont is, at the age of thirty-four, an accomplished woman. A biochemist for a plastics company, she has achieved professional success, but her personal life has not kept…
Synopsis: Mary Gooch is forty-three years old, stands five feet, six inches tall, and weighs more than three hundred pounds. For most of her life, save one too-brief interval, she…
Synopsis: Frankie Ross is fourteen years old and World War I is about to erupt when the story opens in 1916. Her father recently attempted to take his own life,…
Synopsis: Anna Quindlen is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Object Lessons, Black and Blue, and One True Thing, among others. Every Last One not only matches, but exceeds the quality…
Synopsis: Todd was born to George and Maryann McCray late in their lives, after they thought their child-bearing years were behind them. Now 20 years old, Todd lives with them…
Synopsis: In 1979, five toddlers ranging in age from two to four years, were abandoned aboard a luxury yacht named “For Tuna” on the coast of Puerto Rico. The vessel…
It is my pleasure to welcome John Herrick, author of From the Dead. Things are not working out the way Jesse Barlow planned. He grew up “the son of a…
Synopsis: Cora Crowder isn’t really feeling the Christmas spirit. The child of two alcoholics, Cora grew up in an abusive environment which she survived by immersing herself in her studies.…
Synopsis: Two photographs, and a pea coat passed from her grandfather to her father. That’s all Elise has. In one of the photographs, taken at home, she is a baby…
Synopsis: Things are not working out the way Jesse Barlow planned. He grew up “the son of a preacher man” — that Dusty Springfield recording was the author’s inspiration for…
Synopsis: Raleigh Harmon, F.B.I. agent, has just survived a disciplinary transfer to the Bureau’s Seattle, Washington field office. Happily back home in Richmond, Virginia, she is willing to suffer the…
Synopsis: Kat Maguire is having a very bad day. She is late for work, where she is scheduled to make a presentation to an important client. It’s raining, and she…
Synopsis: There is nothing more disconcerting than the feeling that someone is watching you. Nothing will bring a chill up your spine faster than the sense that someone is lurking…
Synopsis: Etan Phillips, owner of Phillips Advertising, survived a disastrous engagement and the worst kind of betrayal. Although it has been five years since he extricated himself from his relationship…
Synopsis: Santiago is an Andalusian boy who spent 16 years in seminary before earning his father’s blessing to become a shepherd so that he could travel. As he sets out,…
I welcome author Sybil Baker, author of a linked short story collection, Talismans. Writing a Linked Short Story Collection Linked Collections: Best or Worst of Both Worlds? by Sybil Baker…