Devil's Creek was the site of a religious cult back in the early '80s. There was a church located there, home to the Lord's Church of Holy Voices and the head of the cult, Jacob Masters preached the gospel of a nameless god. In 1983, Imogene and her other friends…
Three unauthorised Mexican immigrants come to Los Angeles to earn for a living. Luz works multiple jobs to provide for herself and her teenage son Eliseo. Ostelinda works as a labourer in a garment factory. She was deceived by coyotes and confined in the same building since her arrival, telling…
"Rural refers to belonging to a community consisting of ten thousand people or fewer that is a significant driving distance from an urban area." This project consists of fifteen authors that will share their powerful new voices based on their experiences that either grew up in rural communities…
Four different narrators are recalling their memories on the day of the school bus accident which occurred in a small town of Sam Dent. Dolores Driscoll is the most experienced school bus driver in that town. She is the first narrator who gives her account of the story, beginning with…
This story begins with the name of the narrator's customer Jenny Hauser who orders pepperoni and pickles pizza every Wednesday. The narrator is just eighteen years old and eleven weeks pregnant at that time working as a pizza delivery girl at Eddie's. The story is gradually revealing bits and pieces…
Frank recalls the memories of the summer in 1961 when he was a thirteen-year-old boy in a small town of New Bremen, Minnesota. The story is narrated by Frank forty years after, looking back at that particular summer which visited by frequent deaths in various forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder.…
A Pakistani Muslim Zuleikha is married to Iskander via arranged marriage and struggles to adjust to her new life in Texas. She soon realises the life in America is not what she learned from confiscated contraband movies and books in Pakistan. Besides trying to adapt in such an estrange environment,…
This book consists of a collection of random short stories such as A woman who keeps giving excuses to her ex-husband of not returning his car so he can feel her pain of being neglected by him.A lady is visiting a different city for her father's surgery. While smoking…
The Story Is... Miwako has committed suicide. What had caused her to end her life when she is just 20 years old? The first part tells the story of Ryu from the day he met Miwako and some of the unforgettable moments with her before she died. There were times…
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It Begins With...It begins with the story of Ruth's mother, who is working as a maid for a white family. Ruth's mother helps the mistress with the baby's…