Two rival swimming coaches will do anything to gain a competitive edge for an upcoming women's meet, and the rules are stretched to the limit when one of the coaches enters a mermaid in the contest.... more »

A Jewish comic enters a wild fantasy world of goblins and demons to rescue his best friend from the eternal dancing hell of a fairy ring--and falls in love to avoid being turned into a cockroach! In... more »

Rick and Mary's three children disappear from their beds each night, only to reappear before the morning. When Mary finds a magic wand, she begins to discover their secret. What's a parent to do? Ne... more »

Masquerading as a princess from a faraway kingdom, a simple village girl promises wealth and tribute to a wounded warrior of the Moon People, persuading him to walk with her across the dense jungle ... more »

A sixth-grade schoolgirl writes a continuing fantasy story in her secret papers, but the plot doesn't come from her imagination ... she's recording what she sees in the Window.

Four girls walking home from school find a gold coin in the street with an inscription proclaiming the holder is granted one wish. When one of the girls insists the coin must be a fake and stalks of... more »

Doyel's visit to her home village takes an unexpected turn when she falls into a trap set by the newest provincial lord ... but the aging wizard's magic is no match for Doyel's newly-acquired powers... more »

While attending a pretentious pre-teen birthday party at a Hollywood mansion, an ostracized schoolgirl reluctantly reveals a magical secret ... and discovers an unlikely friend who also sees the enc... more »

Barbra's seven-year-old daughter Elizabeth becomes uncharacteristically enthusiastic about her piano lessons when a mysterious "Music Lady" arrives at the school to teach enchanting songs and dances... more »

Munching a cheap hamburger after yet another visit to the unemployment office, Bill Sadler is approached by a suspicious-looking salesman who offers him a unique timeshare opportunity ... for his so... more »

In the fall of 1884, 18-year-old H.G. Wells and his acerbic professor T.H. Huxley ascend to the rooftop of London's Normal School of Science to observe a meteor shower--and discuss the possibility o... more »

Roman tribune Marcus Valerius is sent to Britannia on what appears to be a very dull mission: to collect the gold left to Rome by a recently-deceased British king. But the lovely but intimidating wi... more »

It's the end of the nineteenth century, and astronomer Percival Lowell is smarting from the ridicule heaped upon him for theorizing that Mars is covered with canals built by the locals. To prove he'... more »

In the first bleak years after Christ, a terrible beast stalks young Madrin. Only the wizened priest Brother Renard seems able to protect the boy from--what is it? "The Christians had not so much mo... more »

Elvis in Hell. Stay off of His blue suede shoes.

In medieval Sicily, William's Lord has been betrayed into a trial by combat. Since William himself is only an artisan, he thinks he has nothing to offer a potential champion--until he finds that cha... more »

A frustrated writer runs away from her mundane life, only to find she's carried her inhibitions with her. Then, on the island of Skye, she meets a young musician who shows her what freedom of both b... more »

That poor Pied Piper never wanted to be a stay-at-home father. Maybe he should have thought a little harder about what it would be like to be stuck inside a cave with a hundred kids before deliverin... more »

High school girls beware--There's no need to date the devil if all you want to do is go to your senior prom. Or is there?

In this dark tale of fate and failed New Year's Resolutions, an alcoholic's wife meets the ultimate enabler. Sometimes, taking one step is as easier than trying to climb all twelve.

The Greek gods Zeus and Hera headed one of the first dysfunctional families in recorded history. In this comic update to Bulfinch's Mythology, the estranged couple give their 6000-year relationship ... more »

The ultimate salesman believes he has successfully sold himself to every woman in the company. The bad news is: he can't remember the details of a single transaction.

In the ancient Mayan kingdom of Copan, Two Frog is a jade-carver who can work magic. Saddled with a wicked, complaining wife, Two Frog's world is turned upside-down when the beautiful, but deadly Gr... more »

Award winner from "Story" Magazine Naked Fiction Contest. A story about how it sometimes hurts less to revise the story of a life than to examine the true cost of mistakes.

Sixteenth-century England: A nun waits in dread for Henry VIII's henchmen to despoil her convent. But it's only when she helps a poor madman, who claims to be over 300 years old and smells faintly o... more »