A slice-of-lilfe that tells the incredible and heartwarming story of a young man who takes the initiative to right a wrong…
Stories
The Middle Grounds
A young boy experiences his very first deep-sea fishing adventure with his father on their brand-new center console boat. But his giddy excitement turns to sheer panic when dangerous elements intrude on their lively, memory-making excursion…
Envelope Envy (Slice of Life)
A slice-of-life short story about a working-class girl who wrestles with doing the right thing, even though it would mean losing a friend…
Talent Alone (Slice of Life)
A slice-of-life short story about a gifted musician who hides a secret from those who most admire his mastery...
Salem Poor’s Plucky Patriot Performance
In the first year of the American Revolutionary War during the colonies’ campaign for independence, one former slave fights so valiantly that more than a dozen continental officers recommend he be officially recognized for his bravery and loyalty to their cause…
Nine is Not Enough
After a man rescues a frail lone mountain lion cub, he and his family nurse it back to health, and while raising the cougar, experience many exciting and dangerous adventures over the years…
It’s All Downhill Now (Slice of Life)
A slice-of-life story about a young boy's experience in overcoming unfounded fears on a family vacation to a popular theme park...
The Peculiar Past of Posted Children
A year after introducing its parcel service in 1913, the US Post Office struggled to define what could and could not be sent, as people tested the boundaries by mailing coffins, construction bricks, puppies, freshly-laid eggs, snakes and other reptiles, small farm animals, and even their own children, from one location to another…
Short Yet Still Circuitous (Slice of Life)
A slice-of-life short story depicting the experience of a kind soul who helps to reunite a lost dog with its family…
The Unbelievably Bizarre Burmese Belligerents of World War II
In 1945, during World War II, British and Indian Allies pushed Imperial Axis Japanese troops back at a crucial battle in Burma, forcing them to die resisting or to retreat into a forested swamp, where the enemy would find themselves surrounded by a fierce, primordial foe who took hundreds of their lives in the most horrific ways…
Little Change for Big Charity (Slice of Life)
A slice-of-life short story about the challenging realities of trying to change other people through one's own actions, and no matter how charitable, it's no always enough...
The Flying Flapper (or The East River’s Forgotten Far-Fetched Flight)
A little-remembered, early twentieth-century female pilot strives for the privilege of being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean but was ultimately edged out by a much more famous name that’s made its way into practically every classroom history book, despite her competition’s better aerial maneuvering skills and experience…
Rays (Slice of Life)
This slice-of-life short story depicts a family vacation and a little boy’s experience with bright rays of sunshine, baseball, and stinging fish…
Vindication on Broad Street
A late-nineteenth-century physician, formally trained as an obstetrician who dabbled in many other areas of science, puts his experience and keen sense of detection to work, solving one of the biggest mystery killer’s origins of his time, eventually convincing his skeptical colleagues of the deadly disease’s true source…
The Dark Side of Artificial Light (or 10,000 Failures and the Desperate Invention of Vaporware)
A high-profile and very popular figure, dubbed by the press as a contemporary wizard, conducts gruesome experiments to discredit his chief rival - a troubled genius who ultimately wins a heated public battle for a nation’s and civilization’s rise to modernity…
