Stories

Harlon Eldrick's mother is dying of recurrent breast cancer and wants him to go tell his father. Harlon lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his father lives across the country in a small collection of buildings called Black Dog, Washington. Harlon wants to make this an adventure. He will take the train to Chicago and hitchhike from there to Black Dog. It's been over a week, since Harlon left Chicago on a trip that's been anything but an adventure. He is welcomed into a semi by Steve Lennard for what he hopes is his last ride.

How does a man deal with the death of his wife and picking up the pieces? Sometimes not well.

Allan just wanted to get a bit of rest, get closer to his roommate, but the world had other ideas.

Travis needed to do a standard pickup and move some scientists from one planet to another. Except, this was not just a quiet little milk run.

Jake is a rebellious teenager, perhaps as a response to his father - the captain of the local police force - who has very strict ideas about how Jake should live his life. A mysterious smile is exactly what Jake needed to show his dad that his life is his own.

Arjun Foehammer is home to celebrate his family's founding.

Born with hereditary spastic paraparesis, Simon had spent most of his life in a wheelchair, unable to walk and barely able to use his hands. To his parents, home schooling had seemed to be the only way for Simon to get an education; yet Simon was smart and yearned to be another Stephen Hawking - not to live with his parents until they became to infirm to care for him. He decided to take a chance on applying to the Bronx High School of Science, one of the best public secondary schools in the world. Going to a public high school would be scary, but there'd be new opportunities to live life, and to love.

JIm Stevens joins a defence company despite being firmly in the closet, with some unexpected results....

A sad visit to a new grave; an unknown mourner. What does it mean?

Dan's birthday turns into his best and worst day wrapped into one.