This book... and the stories you are about to read, is for all of the youngsters who have embraced the printed word. Those who are not afraid to use their imaginations, turn pages, and embrace good printed stories. -Jason Barney
From Gravity Island by Gay Degani:
My grandfather's house was up the hill, to the right, or so the ferryman told me, but I'd had trouble understanding him, his voice struggling up his throat to his mouth, the verbs and nouns choking out as if the journey from the depths of his seven foot body weakened his words along the way.
Chris Bartholomew is a writer of dark fiction and has over 200 stories in print publications, anthologies, and some online venues. She is head writer for the international print Serial Killer Magazine with over 70 articles in 8 issues. She also has an ezine where she publishes speculative fiction of other writers, entitled: Static Movement.