Sculptor Amy Freeman wakes one ordinary morning to find her 14-year-old son Zach gone, the only evidence of him a stray flake floating in the milky water of his cereal bowl. Seven years later, in the same California town, a middle-school science teac...
The San Francisco/Peninsula Writers have done it again. This is their fourth volume of short stories. Novelists Max Tomlinson, David Hirzel, Margaret Davis, James Hanna, Diane Lee Moomey, and Laurel Ann Hill join forces to produce a stellar anthology...
A lifetime of missed connections. One moment that will change everything. In a placid California suburb, thirty-seven-year-old Sean Masterson holds his mother at gunpoint. “You have to listen to me now, Ma,” he says to Ginny. She does listen. But...
Jody catalogues her parental failures as she worries whether her ballet-crazed teen daughter will make it onto the stage. C.J. adopts his dead grandmother's dog, risking eviction but opening himself to the possibility of love. Brianna uses a spoon...