A Day in the Life with Jake McGee by Liz Mugavero

I’ve lived in Frog Ledge almost my whole life, and I can’t remember a time when things have been so upside down. I would say it’s coincidence, but it all started when Stan Connor came to town… I’m Jake McGee, and I run McSwigg’s. It’s the best Irish pub this...

A Day in the Life of Seamus McCree by James M Jackson

Some people aren’t familiar with my first name. I’m Boston Irish, although I haven’t lived there for years, and it’s pronounced “Shay-mus”—like the private eye—which I am not. If I weren’t sequestered deep in the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, eight miles from...

A Day in the Life of Lucky Smith by Vicki Delany

Love in the later years is a wonderful thing. None of that dreadful insecurity or paralyzing worries about not being pretty enough or thin enough. What will your parents think of him? Most important of all: what will your friends think of him? And is he really in love...

A Day in the Life of Lucille Mazzarella by Peg Cochran

Yo, Lucille Mazzarella here. I’m trying this here new diet I read about. Now, my Frankie always says he likes me just the way I am, but I wouldn’t mind losing a couple of pounds if you know what I mean. I don’t know where they came from, but all of a sudden even the...

A Few Words From Meg by Connie Archer

Hi . . . I’m Meg. I’d tell you my last name except I DON’T HAVE ONE! At least not yet. I guess you can tell I’m more than a little miffed. You see, everybody in Snowflake has a last name. Lucky’s is Jamieson. Janie, the other waitress at the Soup Shop, is Janie...

Zoe Chase, Entrepreneur! by J.J. Cook

You know, I never really thought of myself as the entrepreneurial type. I was mostly happy at my banking job. It was what everyone wanted me to do when I got out of college. I knew I could do more, but I thought that would happen as I went along. Inside, I always...