In 1941, racial tensions are rising in the California community where nineyear-old Sachiko Kimura and her seventeen-year-old brother, Nobu, live. Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor, people are angry, and one night, Sachiko and Nobu witness three teenage boys taunting and beating their father in the park. Sachiko especially remembers Terrence Harris, the boy with dark skin and hazel eyes, and Nobu cannot believe the boys capable of such violence toward his father are actually his friends. What...

In this Pushcart nominated story, Jubie Lee Franklin watches as hundreds of Japanese Americans get off the train in her small town in Arkansas. She's never seen people who look like they do, and she's surprised when the white folk start calling them names. After all, she figured only Negroes were called ugly names. But though their skin colors are different, Jubie befriends Sachiko Kimura, and they learn they have plenty in common.

Josie knew her life would change when she left California for Alaska to study whales. But little did she know just how much.

In 1941, racial tensions are rising in the California community where nine-year-old Sachiko Kimura and her seventeen-year-old brother, Nobu, live. Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor, people are angry, and one night, Sachiko and Nobu witness three teenage boys taunting and beating their father in the park. Sachiko especially remembers Terrence Harris, the boy with dark skin and hazel eyes, and Nobu cannot believe the boys capable of such violence toward his father are actually his friends. Wha...

An anthology of traditional and contemporary western short stories where the characters are lain bare.Feel the pain of a young Japanese girl who comes home from an internment camp after World War II and learns it’s easier to go with the flow than to fight the current.Struggle with an expectant mother on the cold winter prairie while she waits for her husband to come home from a hunting trip.Journey with a young woman to the Four Corners as she tries to connect with ...

Thrills. Chills. Shadows and superstitions. Things that go bump in the night. Macabre Sanctuary boasts suspenseful fiction designed to elicit goosebumps and raise heartrates.Learn the lore of a haunted island.Grapple with the undead while robbing graves Halloween night.Endure a hazing ritual unlike any other.Deal with a demon at an All Souls' Day celebration.See what happens when you court death in the wild.Battle zombies and canniba...