The invitations arrived by post… There were many unusual aspects to this invitation,,,
PLAYING OUT THE DECK by Stan Dryer

I never would have made it to Mt. Katahdin by myself.
KILLER KID by Arthur Davis

I was blindfolded and gagged and prodded through a maze of winding, dank corridors, with the muzzle of a gun jammed in my back.
YEAR OF THE RABBIT by Lisa Meltzer Penn

At the inner edge of San Francisco’s Richmond district, an eye winks open from the fog.
THE FINISH LINE by Chris Kok

They run, not because they need to, or want to. They run because it’s what they have done every day for as long as they can remember.
LEAVE IT TO HANSEL by Jarrett Langford

Ward Clever pulled into the driveway of his Mayfield home just after five o’clock. But today, something was troubling Ward as he hastily walked through the front door.
TOMORROW’S DINOSAURS by Matt Handle

Cam glanced at the dashboard display and grimaced.
HANDIWORK by Jan Cronos

The cat’s solitary orange eye stared at Indian Wayne
PROMISES by Amita Basu

Suman gasped. A hundred and twenty miles away, through the sky suddenly clear, wide gleamed the blue-white Himalayas.
UNWANTED by Frances Koziar

She ran away from everyone that day