Fiction

Tabitha finds herself trapped between her mother’s Old World expectations of a young lady and her newfound love of baseball.

As the holiday season rolls around, a young woman struggles with religious orthodoxy, parental expectations, and a world of possibilities.

Who — or what — took the detective’s aging mother’s jewelry?

Past childhood issues come into clearer focus after a new medical diagnosis.

“The conference materials were still in the seat pocket, open to the page about the theory of personal responsibility in tort law. Often the victim is in the best position to consider the potential harm that might befall her.”

A small-town southern girl wants to be “where things happen on a big scale,” but the dreariness of the North will test her resilience.

An Australian magazine editor is entangled in a love triangle between a vapid new cover girl and his whip-smart photographer.

“Why hadn’t he done something about it years before? Why hadn’t he broken it up before it was too late, and saved his own soul, his longing for life, color? But no, he had not. Why complain so bitterly now?”