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Seven short stories are featured in this compilation by Q. Kelly, including: "Miss Lucy Parker", "A Weird Situation", "The Interview" and more.

Nine years of living with dying and raising three teens while working dawn to dusk. Slowly, I eased through it. Slowly, I developed a realization of my priorities, who I was, and where I belong. A world where handshakes are meaningless, love is a memory tear sliding down my cheek and death has become too-close of a companion. How could I keep going? Bird feathers, dolphins, a moon that brought me up short-these were the symbols that showed me the way. And gradually I attained a family, my family filled with love.

In Good Grief in Lottawatah, Brianna's first day on the job in the town funeral home is full of surprises, including ghosts with complaints and the unexpected murder of Lottawatah's richest and crabbiest citizen. Now that she's got a job and health insurance, it's time to turn up the heat on her romance with hunky deputy Cooper Jackson.

Ashley Heyman, the young daughter of Brianna's best friend, has disappeared without a trace. Everyone is counting on Brianna to use her psychic abilities to find the little girl, but so far she's drawing a blank. The good news is that it appears that Ashley is still alive, but if so, where is she and who would kidnap an innocent child? Leon, the adorable and digestively-challenged bulldog, is back on the job and can more than hold his own against dogs 40 times his size.

Fifteen-year-old Caitlin Whittington, last seen waiting for a ride home from school, is the second girl in Paradise Falls to disappear in five months. Fears grow that she won't be the last as the town begins to suspect a serial killer might be loose. With her daughter's disappearance, Grace Whittington makes some surprising and unsettling discoveries about her stepson, Adam. When she uncovers information that seems to implicate him, the fault lines of a happily blended family crack wide open.

In the new essays collected here, an interdisciplinary group of scholars asks age-old questions about the nature and well-being of humans in the context of a revolutionary new biotechnology - one that has the potential to change the genetic make-up of both existing people and future generations. Welcoming listeners who study related issues and those not yet familiar with the formal study of bioethics, the authors of these essays open up a conversation about the ethics of gene editing.

If Constantine is to be believed - which Alex insists he isn't - Cherry can become human again. According to her ex, the prophecy that holds the cure calls for certain things she may not be ready for, though, and his suggestion for getting over a pesky clause complicates things further.

Nadia Richards lives in a world plagued by reincarnation, a system of recycling souls where all past memories, personalities, and traumatic events are relived daily in disjointed sequences. Within a society that ignores death, Nadia appears to be the one exception to the reincarnation trap. Born without any reincarnated memories and with printless eyes, the hot-tempered 19-year-old quickly becomes the ultimate prize to all those wishing to end the vicious cycle, or for some, to ensure they could evade death forever.

He was the bad boy with the raging heart. She was the good girl with the big dreams. Now he is a master stonecutter with a broken marriage and a son he would move heaven and earth to keep safe from harm, while she is a success at everything she touches . . . everything except love.

Former Newsweek reporter Maggie Brooks has two kids, a dead husband, a mortgage to pay, and a lot of competition when she tries to get back into the shrinking newspaper business. Landing a job with a local paper, she's bored to tears covering bake sales and Little League games. But when a developer tries to build an outlet mall in a neighboring town, what starts out as a potentially great clip for her resume suddenly turns dangerous and ugly. Someone will do anything to block the mall's construction.

Stella Maddox is approaching forty. After sacrificing her career to become a stay-at-home mom, her marriage and life disintegrate. Birthdays don't bother her, but screaming kids, superficial friends, and grey hairs do. She compromises her spirit over and over, and finds herself slipping through the cracks as her family's lives take priority over her own.

She strikes up a friendship with her neighbor's college-age son, Tad.

A story of two sisters from Planet Venesha playing hide and seek in the woods when they hear a strange sound and go to investigate. They look and find a cat who appears to be all alone, and wait for its mother to return.

Drawing on databases of cases filed, news reports, and other sources, Susan M. Sterett argues that governing during the pandemic must include the human institutions intertwined with the effects of the virus. Those institutions reveal problems well beyond the reach of technical expertise. Failures in private insurance as a way of governing risk, conflicts about the primacy of religion, government authority, and health, are problems that predated the pandemic and will persist in future disasters.

Quiet Fury is a state of being that we’ve all experienced; calm on the surface, rage bubbling underneath. For most of us, that is a brief moment. Restraint takes over. We grumble and walk away. Some allow the rage to marinate until they are consumed. They cross the line, seek revenge, retribution. Or is it satisfaction? These stories explore each individual’s breaking point. Which will win, the Quiet or the Fury?

To the late-night ER staff struggling to save her life, Janie Braxton was just one more big city crime victim. But to the spirit of an ancient Native American chief who once reigned supreme over the middle of pre-Columbian North America, she's an incomplete sacrifice holding the key to regaining his long-lost power. Pursued by Janie's assailant Dewie and his gang, her two small daughters trek through the mean streets of St Louis...