Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile conducted interviews with hundreds of mothers while researching their best-selling book I Was a Really Good Mom Before I Had Kids. It didn't take long before these moms began to reveal their Dirty Little Secrets—surprising, thought-provoking, guilty confessions they hadn't told anyone else. Cringe-worthy moments ("I bit my daughter's finger trying to steal a bite of her cookie.") meet real insights ("I love my kids but I didn't always. It took time t...

David is on break from his dead-end job at the Dollar Store. A scruffy old man approaches him claiming to be his uncle who hasn't eaten in two days. David gives the old man his last $2. Something comes back in return later.

If you have ever been in an abusive relationship you know you can't leave, you must escape. An abusive relationship is not just a relationship where hitting is involved. Emotional wounds take longer to heal than bruises. What do you do when you have found yourself in this kind of relationship? You won't tell anyone because; you are embarrassed and ashamed, you don't think anyone will believe you, you don't want anyone to worry about you and you don't want anyone giving you grief about the ...

Working on his model railroad set is more than just a hobby for John Wilson, it's his desperate attempt to fix the ghosts of his childhood. But his obsession with his creation may have an unexpected side-effect...Short Story, approx. 2,500 words

A missing son. A 1950s retirement home. And a mechanical nightmare that thins the wall between realities.When Thomas Alan Davies purchased the sun-bleached ranch house at 3489 West Crest Way in Youngtown, Arizona, he expected nothing more than an engineering project. The property—priced forty percent below market value, carried a strange history and a long record of brief, unsettled owners. It was also the very house from which his maternal grandmother, Evelyn Bloc...

Life lessons of life will get us every time. A teenage girl, filled with dreams of being happy for ever and hope. A dream of having the white picket fence 2.5 kids, a husband, a good job, friends and family. Until sudden life changing events take place in her life. As she tries to figure out why things happen to the best of us, she is faced with challenges and determination. The question is will she ever Make It Through the Hard Times that life will take us all through? Will she be able to...

Detectives are supposed to find things, but one day at the park, Bones loses just about everything: his magnifying glass, his dog, and even his detective bag. Can Detective Jeffrey Bones find the things he lost?

An unemployed man laments the closing of the local public library. He decides to do something about it.

The most important job in the worldThis treasury of wisdom, humor, and love is a guide for every step of the exhilarating, sometimes exasperating journey that begins with those three wonderful words: It's a boy! Its hundreds of lessons from mother to son include instilling values and confidence. Knowing when to say yes, and when to say no.It's filled with the importance of nurturing responsibility: Teach him that the world will judge him by his actions, n...

This book was written because if I can save just one baby from having to go through or having the experience that I had as a child; it will be worth it. My goal is to get the child bearing female to stop and think and be honest with themselves. To think about what color really mean to them and their family. Will the child or children be able to receive the love they deserve? That the female choose a male that she wants her babies to look just like him. We all know that all babies are beaut...

In her Manual and Advice on Coping With Your Divorce, Gilly gives advice about what she learned so that others won't have to go through the same heartbreak, and thoughts of suicide.