Showing results for title "The Crossing" in Anthologies & Short Stories

When Benjamin Kline returns to the fold after eight years, Abigail Baughman welcomes him with an open heart. But all is not well in their Amish village. Mysterious happenings put Abby in harm’s way, forcing Ben to run to her rescue. He’s vowed never to let anyone hurt her, and suddenly everything is at risk—their community, their way of life…and their future together.

In this wonderful collection of four novellas, a daughter returns home from the big city to care for her injured mother, childhood sweethearts reconnect after decades apart, a single mom finds herself the target of her starry-eyed daughter’s matchmaking scheme, and a young couple struggles to find their own American dream. Celebrating family, faith, and forgiveness, Here in Hart’s Crossing will warm your heart and soothe your spirit.

A truck driver (Buddy) and a waitress (Penny) both have enough trouble without everyone in Webster's Crossing thinking they are falling in love.

A farmer, while crossing a field, mysteriously disappears into thin air before the eyes of several witnesses, resulting in a legal proceeding to determine whether he's dead.

Brendan Conway is aboard the ocean liner, Apparitania of the Cunard Line. He is crossing the Atlantic on his way to be reunited with his wife in America. Along his journey, things become stranger and stranger as he meets a young boy traveling alone, several crewmen, and the ship's worthy Captain. In search of any restaurant on the ship that is in service, the unlikely pair of Brendan and young Wade discover that transporting passengers to and from The United States and England in luxury is not the ship's true purpose.

Engaging, profound, and beautifully narrated, these stories explore the hope and sorrow wrapped in the challenge of finding our way home. The stories are "The Long Drive Home", "Crossing Over", and "The Farm".

A wanderer with a troubled past follows a sensitivity to magic that pulls him hard to a mountain in the middle of nowhere, where he's caught up in impending apocalypse, powerful practitioners...and a blood feud.

What constitutes a border? In the geographical sense, they consist of areas defined by rivers, mountains, and deserts. Physically a boundary prevents people from doing what they choose to do—and sometimes keeps them from harm. When a mental frontier limits you, who powers this abstraction? Why you do...of course.

Written by multiple Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominee Jay Lake, "Crossing the Seven" was first published in the 2007 anthology Logorrhea. Over his long career, Jay Lake has published 10 novels and more than 300 stories. He was honored with the 2004 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.