(short story) Johnny Pinkett is nine years old and desperately unhappy: no matter how hard he studies for his qualification exam, he is denied a dog time after time. He didn't mean to bust the town bully, Chet Cartwright, one in the mouth with his backpack and now he has to deal with the enforcement agent sitting at the kitchen table....

Cover art by Cat Hare.All her life, Saari has slept in the same bed with Mom and Dad and the dog and the cat, none of whom have gotten any sleep at all. Now she finally has her own bedroom but nobody can agree on how to decorate it!

Cats live in the Dayworld - we see them all around us but we don't see all they are.We don't see the Shadowcats prowling the walls at night to protect the most innocent from the worst evil.*note*: don't get too comfortable reading it!

What do you do if you're stuck in the ice and the only help available is a dog that's too smart for your own good?

When a young man hits a certain stage of life and has locked himself in his bedroom, what are concerned parents to do?

Working fast food is hell, literally, for Justin. He finds himself stuck at work, reliving the same hour over and over again and there is no escape.

Seven-year old Henry Burrows is anxious to know whether Santa Claus is real. In the face of his father's lay-off and his mother's fears that Christmas might not come this year, it grows harder to believe. It would take a miracle for his family to celebrate Christmas now. The kind of miracle that only the real Santa could provide. If the old man in the Sears & Roebuck store can somehow grant Henry's wish …

After ten years of marriage, Asabe and Adam remain childless. Fueled by desperation and a long held secret, Adam marries a second wife. This decision acts as the catalyst to change no one could have predicted. Read An Unproductive Woman to learn what secrets Adam has withheld that would explain his unreasonable longing and pursuit of a son at all costs.

When his beloved wife Nina suddenly dies - after 23 years of life together - Alberto Landi understands he has to leave Milan Italy, where he has always lived and worked. He leaves his friends, colleagues, a good job and the polluted big city he has never loved which has now become even more intolerable to him. He is fifty, he is totally alone and he is confused, but he definitely knows that he has to escape very far away, across the ocean to the only place he and Nina had always loved toge...

Lucy, at 12, accompanies her older sister Pam to a rock concert, at the insistence of their mother. Lucy would rather be at the library, and Pam would rather be with her wild teenage friends than with her quiet, bookish sister. They attend, but during a mad rush to the stage, Lucy loses a shoe…

An out and back is a run that starts and ends at the same point. Along the way we are changed. In the end we are back where we started.Amber runs every morning, bakes home cooked meals, and keeps a spotless house. She homeschools her children, grows an organic garden and milks her own goats. But Amber Stonewall is not perfect. She is a mother who fails, a wife who is unable to show affection, a daughter who is absent and a sister who knows it all. When her mom dies, it all slaps he...

Jule Verne and H.G. Wells are just young kids when they first meet in Paris. They become fast friends, sharing their tales of adventure as they mature into young men, and their excitement about the vastness of the universe.Then one day they notice strange things begin happening. Soldiers march off and never return. There's some kind of underwater battle going on in the Channel. Parents march off to war and never send another word back.Wells is shocked from his immobilizatio...