Victoria Hudson is 29 and lives in the kind of small town where everyone knows everyone else. She has two great loves in her life -- her cat, Mister, and reading books from her used bookstore. She doesn't see...
A parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. A parent's only hope: a child's joy. What happens when all you have to give is not enough? A story about love, dreams, family, unexpected connections, and learning...
So what becomes of us as we lose our faculties? Where do we go and what secrets do we learn? And do we discover that all our sacrifices were worthwhile?
Excerpted from John Dod and Robert Cleaver's "A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandements," a standard English Puritan treatment of the ten commandments, first published in 1603 and not reprinted...
Although they have never met before, a seemingly chance encounter leaves Elaine Chieko Packard and Connor McKenzie haunted by passionate dreams they cannot control. They determine to resolve the growing tension...
A woman in a guesthouse by the sea shows a man photographs of her son from the moment that he was born. As the night continues she discovers why her guest is running. Xavier's new novel Heaven Sent is now available...
A fifteen minute read: I am sitting here in the lounge-bar of the McKinley Arms Hotel, by the shores of Loch Lomond, and I am staring out into the twilight at my choices. I have been this way before many times...
Abbi is a normal girl. She still lives at home with her mother. Then one day she meets Mark and her world is turned upside down. Suddenly nothing is as it seems and people keep trying to drive a wedge between...
Rosie dresses as "Little Red Riding Hood, all growed up" for a party at an exclusive adults' club. Roger dresses as the wolf. When they meet... sparks don't exactly fly. This isn't a romance or erotic fiction,...
A story of love and life, of war and loss, and of longing and need. This short story is made up of sixteen drabbles. A drabble is a story written in exactly one hundred words, not including the title, and cannot...
Fall Love tells the intertwined stories of four twenties-something artists and professionals adrift in the bad old pre-AIDS New York of 1980. From a summer of love through an autumn of deceit and regret, we...
She was in there, he knew it. He'd been following her for weeks and knew every move she made. There'd be no escaping him. Time was on his side. "I'm waiting, Steph. I've been waiting a long, long time." Stephanie...
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