Chapter 2 of Tony Thomson's novel, About Face

Chapter 1 of Carol Moreira's Riptides

Chapter 12 of Andy Tolson's debut novel, Noisemaker

The dinner scene from Laura Churchill Duke's Two Crows Sorrow

Detectives Gurrey and Grime have their first adventure in Fish and Dicks, by Jim Prime and Ben Robicheau

The beginning of Seven Shifts, by Janet Parker Vaughan

Chapter 9 from Carol Ann Cole's Paradise on the Morrow, book 3 in the Paradise series

The start of chapter 39 of Marie Mossman's A Rebel for Her Time

The skinny-dipping showdown from Brenda J Thompson's Tales from the End of the Old Military Road

Chapter 1 of Rhoda C. Hill's Loving Number Seven, book 1 in The Love Shack series

Clara from Granville Ferry reinvents herself as a champion swimmer in Ernest J. Dick's Pursuing Clara

An excerpt about code language from Where's Home? by Jan Fancy Hull

The start of a short play from A Dash of Currie

Connie Jodrey's "The Curling Game" from Moose House Stories Volume 1