If there is one immutable feature in the social fabric of the American South, it is the telling of stories: giving a sense of place, traditions, family relationships, desires and hope. It has...
Cassandra has finally landed on her feet when she escapes to a new job after a relationship gone wrong. Leighton Park Stud, located in remote rural Canterbury New Zealand, seems a lifetime away...
In this delightful Chinese fairy tale, an old soothsayer matches wits with a dragon rain god. The dragon’s envy becomes his downfall as Consuto’s patience and wisdom win the love of the...
Not every girl loves pink Izzie hates pink as much as her sister, Rose, loves it. So when Rose plans an all-pink birthday party with the guests dressed in fairy costumes, Izzie decides...
aqua: —a solution, especially in water synthesis: —a complex whole formed by combining aquasynthesis: —a pool of stories, fed by the depths of creation and imagination; an anthology of short fiction by Splashdown authors. Our past, our future, our fate, our...
in Dubliners She was fast asleep. Gabriel, leaning on his elbow, looked for a few moments unresentfully on her tangled hair and half-open mouth, listening to her deep-drawn breath. So she had had that romance...
by Emma Donoghue Up and down the street poured the Saturday afternoon crowd; mothers bent on finding perfect autumn overcoats, men in greasy tweed hats, bored suburban girls bringing £9.99 bargains to show...
from Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme Well, we had all these children out planting trees, see, because we figured that … that was part of their education, to see how, you know, the root systems...
