A day in the life of Gabby Drake by Leslie Budewitz

My mother likes to say she was born singing. But me? Maybe I was, maybe I wasn’t. The only people who know haven’t seen me since I was born, in China, twenty-two years ago. By the time my parents got me and brought me to this country, I hadn’t spoken a word in months....

A day in the life with Sabrina Tate by Kay Finch

I’m in the habit of looking at life through a good news/bad news window. For example, a restaurant might serve the best food I’ve ever eaten – that’s good news. They might also be the most expensive place I’ve ever eaten – that’s the bad news. A friend might have a...

A day in the life with Julie Hall by Wendy Roberts

My life is kind of normal. I live in Northern Washington with my Rottweiler, Wookie, in a trailer on Gramps’s property and I work at a gas station. It’s a simple life; if you don’t count the times I use my divining rods to find the dead. Which sounds way cooler than...

A Day in the Life of Duffy Madison by E.J. Copperman

My days are varied. Sometimes I have no work, in which case I tend to my personal business and finances. I will research some aspects of missing person cases because that is my specialty. On days when I am commissioned by the Bergen County (New Jersey) Prosecutor’s...

A day in the life with Chen SuLin by Ovidia Yu

Frangipani trees are often planted near temples and graveyards, where the fresh flowers decorate the graves daily. People associate them with remembered love and with immortality because of how their branches produce leaves and flowers even after being cut off. I...