Can a child defeat a frozen giant and bring summer back to Apple Island?It's the last night of a family's holiday on a tropical island filled with black beaches, sweetfruit, and red-necked looby birds. Their final adventure is to climb the island's tallest mountain before they leave in the morning. But when the child—who might be you—wakes up the next morning, the world has become a frozen wasteland and the father has been transformed into ice.Setting out in...

A prominent artist ventured behind locked doors to portray three "forgotten" social classes: the elderly, people in mental institutions, and the prison population. Alan E. Cober began his career in the 1960s, when illustration took a turn toward a new expressionism. Influenced by the works of Ben Shahn, George Grosz, and Albrecht Dürer, he believed that narrative art could inform public attitudes toward political and social issues. Cober's aim as a "visual journalist" was to effect change ...

How the Zebra got his stripes The adventure of Vusi, the pirate captain. (5500 words)

Hunter doesn’t dream of much. I mean a good meal and a days rest from his uncles hard labor would be nice, but not essential Hunter is a survivor.Then he see’s a girl on a white horse take a risk, and Hunter wonders if he could do the same. Everything happens rather quickly after that, he makes friends, discovers compassion and warmth, has a bucket of mud thrown over his head, not to mention ambushing the bandits. And earning respect. This is the beginning of a new life for Hunter....