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What Lies in the Woods

Skeletons of the Past Author: Kate Alice Marshall While playing in the woods with her best friends, eleven-year-old Naomi was brutally attacked by a serial killer and left to die. All these years later, she has taken it for granted that the right man was sent to prison. That her friend’s memories of the event were her own. That the man who was just executed for her attempted murder and for killing an unknown number of other women was her assailant. But what if he wasn’t? What if the man who attacked her went free? What if her testimony sent the [...]

2023-07-16T08:27:52-07:00July 16th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

China Room, The

Love, Duty, Betrayal, and Society Author: Sunjeev Sahota It’s 1929 – Punjab, India. There is political unrest, but for Mehar, a young bride living with her husband’s family on a rural farm, all that is very far away. She is married into a family with three brothers. She lives with the other two wives, and during their hardworking days and stifling, hopeful nights, the women wonder which of the brothers is their husband, which of the men it is who occasionally comes for them in the dark. Mehar knows, though, and she has fallen in love with the man she thinks [...]

2023-05-27T19:41:54-07:00May 27th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

Swimming Lessons

Lessons in Selfishness   Author: Claire Fuller Ingrid had everything going for her. She was doing well in college, an ardent feminist who saw a future filled with possibilities and freeness. But then she fell for Gil, her professor, a man who loved books and the stories revealed in the margins by doodling students and bored readers. When her romance turned serious and she became pregnant, she did the responsible thing, the thing a woman in love would do. She left college. She married Gil. She settled down. She settled. Despite all the warnings about Gil, she didn’t believe that he was [...]

2023-04-22T09:43:49-07:00April 22nd, 2023|Tags: , , , |
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