By: Christopher Johnson To Ulee Newman, his grandmother’s Victorian house was a place of comfort and safety and marvels and magic, all in one. Grandmother Hanson, her name was—his father’s mother, and she lived about a mile from his house—or,…
By: Ethan Goffma Son: Father, our black cat is invisible at night and so an excellent hunter. Yet he has a white spot that can give away his position as he lies hiding, waiting to pounce. Is there some biological…
By: Garry Fourman On a mild morning during my final weeks in Fiji, I visited a small fishing village, gathering material for a project on how storytelling can be used effectively in teaching. I sat on a beach with an…
By: Barbara E. Dolan Bethany was a young lady with two children, a boy and a girl, the loves of her life. But for the first time in her life, she found herself needing to raise her children on…
By Douglas Young “Soon after the clock strikes one…” Dorsey Cullen shouted across the lawn at Waller Patton College. “Planet Pax rocks the Straight Arrow,” his bandmate Jasper Wilcox replied with a grin. “It’ll be balls to…
By Tristen Eason A handsome man, adept at growing tall in his youth, Sean always arrived through the campus buildings to greet me with a smile and offer to buy me and any other friends with me a coffee….
By Douglas Young Clyde Thompson and Sedona Watts held hands driving up the rural, two-lane highway. They had almost reached the mountainous Thadeus Holtzclaw State Park where Sedona had tried to get Clyde to go camping for years. Though…
By: Don Tassone Bone-tired and drenched in sweat, the old man sat down on a landscape boulder under the cool shade of an oak tree in his backyard. Catching his breath, he looked down at his dirty hands…
By: Donald Lee A pep rally was scheduled for Saturday ahead of Collegiate Prep’s boys’ basketball championship game but for now the students straggling into Ms. Burke’s AP Calculus class for first period were still half asleep. Students were free…
By: Yurii Tokar It doesn’t matter why the trim, fifty-eight-year-old Sergei Viktorovich Krapchishin, in an elegant dark-gray suit, an ironed white shirt, and polished black leather shoes, unexpectedly found himself, on a spring morning in 2025, on a narrow,…