Holly Parker by Diana Xarissa

I’m Holly Parker, and I’m having a midlife crisis. There, I said it. I’m not even embarrassed. Okay, I might be a little embarrassed, but it isn’t like I’m doing anything crazy like quitting my job and joining the circus. It’s just that now that I’m fifty, I’ve...

Viviana Valentine by Emily J. Edwards

Listen: it’s not always an easy sleep in New York City no matter the time of year, and in the summertime? That heat’ll get you. But my windowless room at Mrs. Svitlana Kovalenko’s Girls-Only Boarding house stays a pretty steady temp, so it’s a miracle that I manage to...

Camille Benson by Cordy Abbott *plus giveaway*

Waited4You Antiques Store Newsletter, No.01 “What can you say about Roberto Fratelli that hasn’t been said about dry weddings?” Really! Can you believe someone posted that on Waited4You’s Facebook page? (Alright, it was Opal, my best friend and the only woman captain...

Samantha Davies by S.A. Kazlo

Hi, Samantha Davies here. My Southern Belle cousin, Candie Parker, and I live in a small town, Wings Falls, in upstate New York. We’re hookers. Now don’t go rolling your eyeballs into your cranium, we are rug hookers. Even though it is March, and today is...

Trudell Becket by Dorothy St. James

“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” ~ Ralph Wando Emerson That quote pretty much sums up my life. I live for the tales and the truths that are whispered in the pages of my favorite books. As a librarian, I’ve made books my vocation. It was a purposeful...

Ellie Christie by Ann Claire

Hi, everyone. I’m Ellie Christie, and oh my, what a day to introduce myself. Just last night, my older sister Meg and I witnessed something awful. We were on the gondola and. . . Wait. Maybe I should clarify. Not a Venetian gondola. A ski gondola, your own glass...