This gripping collection of stories - fiction, nonfiction, and narrative poem - will make your imagination run wild! Featuring stories by Sarah Smith Ducksworth, Elaine Crauder, Luanne Smith, Keith R. Fentonmiller, Lisa Montagne, Ann Stolinsky, A.J. O'Connell, Aimee LaBrie, Kristan Campbell, Jack Hillman, Bill Scruggs, Joshua Hedges, Gary Zenker. You will travel alternative planets, run away away like teens in search of adventure, solve a murderous mystery, come to grips with your fears, a...

A living wall cut through India so the Great Hedge of India could turn salt into obedience, hunger, and imperial revenue. Built from thorn, patrol, paperwork, and fear, the hedge exposed how colonial taxation could enter the most ordinary substance of life. This book follows the Inland Customs Line as a mechanism of British rule, where salt revenue, East India Company administration, and customs policing reshaped movement, trade, and survival. Rather than treating empire as distant policy,...