Odette is twenty-three, living at home with her mother and younger sister, working at the local convenience store where she has been since high school and just rolling along with life. She finally realizes that she is restless, she is Stuck, that this isn't what...

Life is in pieces for Maud. Her beloved father died in a car accident and now her mother has remarried, so she leaves her home in New Orleans for New York to find a new life. She rents a small apartment next door to Lina,...

After losing her mother, and in a bid to run away from abusive foster parents, Sophie took to the streets for survival. This, however, landed her in jail after an attempted gas station robbery with her boyfriend. The only way the judge would let her...

Saving Emma by Maria Miller tells a story of a teenage partnership that leads to a lifelong commitment. Luke and Emma were pushed together as teenagers by bullies at the school they both attended and dared to attend the Prom together. That dance marked the...

Safe and Sound by T.S. Krupa is a year in the life of Jill, following the sudden loss of her husband of 2 years. When Jay is hit by a drunk driver while on a morning run, Jill is faced with having to make decisions...

Swimming Upstream begins with our main character, Lizzie, facing the dilemma of needing to end things with her long term boyfriend Larsen, but having no idea how to do it. The problem Lizzie has is that she has no idea what the chasm between them...

Ernie Price lives in the tiny town of Hubbell, Michigan. He took care of his parents until their death, then he filled his days running the local service station and his evenings volunteering at the church, or working to repair toys so that he can...

As J.M. Ney-Grimm’s tale begins, Sarvet is filled with joyous anticipation. The fifteen-year-old knows that the day about to dawn is no ordinary one. For it is Other-joy and, rather than the drudgery of regular chores, there is celebration. However, several things threaten to lessen...

Shekinah by Kelly Sebastina is the story of a teen's deep desire for an older man who, though her mother calls him Uncle Chris, is not actually her uncle. As Angie fantasizes about him, she continually struggles with a voice that is working inside of...

Socrates said, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.' Starting from that premise, Donna Baier Stein creates characters who are questioning who they are and how they really fit into the world and families around them in her thought provoking anthology, Sympathetic People. Examining feelings...