Book Genre: Short Stories
Annie is a grown woman now, past all that childish adventuring stuff, but when her cousin Henry claims to have overheard instructions to buried treasure she is forced to decide whether or not to invest her belief in one more childish adventure.
This story is also available in Baverstock’s Allsorts Volume 1
At age 57, Angelina has raised two children, run a business, and survived divorce.
She believes herself a woman capable of managing any challenge.
But when her daughter leaves her pet bird in Angelina’s care before setting off for Venice, Angelina comes face to face with the one thing she’s never managed to do in her life—achieve a dream that’s been with her since childhood.
A thoughtful and uplifting short story by the author of The Red Umbrella.
Helen Summers spends every Sunday afternoon caring for small children, like little 5-year-old Peter who is intent on defying his mother's instructions.
As Helen tries to inculcate a few life lessons in her little nephew, she's reminded of the reasons why she has become the self-appointed guardian of Sunday afternoons.
Financial downturns affect all walks of life.
Even the criminal underworld.
Gary and Horace believe they've come up with a way to make the act of kidnapping a pleasant experience for all involved. Including, and especially, the kidnapee.
The problem is, Stephanie Monroe might be completely the wrong person to kidnap...
Heather Patterson has lived a life of converging and diverging lines.
Her husband had been incompatibly perpendicular, merely crossing her life temporarily on his way to 'better things.'
Her teenage son is gradually drifting away from her as he heads for adulthood.
And her father has completed the arc of sending her off into the world and then welcoming her back to his home in need of care.
Is it too much to expect that someone with matching tastes could converge with Heather's own continually straight line?
Can she find a parallel love?
Brandon loves pie.
Especially apple and blueberry pie.
The problem is, Brandon isn't allowed pie for a whole week when he gets detention at school.
A bigger problem is that the kids at school are so annoying Brandon can't help getting detention.
But for pie, he'll give anything a go.