David Cotrone brings us into the quiet, yet ominous eye of the storm in "The Eclectic Rituals of Lynn Wallace". An incredibly moving story of a mother and son’s grief and how some can get lost in its world.

 

Karen Stefano deftly and humorously deals with the whirlwind of a marriage detonating in "All The Bad Words Start With V". A story that builds like a tornado as we discover with the narrator the horror of unfurling lies.

 

Len Kuntz, the majestic writer of flash, gives us five flash lightning stories, "The Stranger", "Have You Seen Me", "The Things I Do For Love", "The Hidden Cost", and "What Happened To All The Readers". Each story has to do with loss after a shockwave of war, missing persons, passion, karmic debts and the world of the printed word.

 

Isabelle Hecht erupts into the labyrinth of "The Train Game". A young boy who plays an explosive game of endless identities, lingering like a soft gale of wind on the guilt of strangers.

 

Jesse Loesberg blows it up with "You Can Tell Me Anything". A woman watches her world demolish as the surging personalities swirl around her, the unfolding of Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapping on TV, the demise of her business and finds her real self somewhere inside this twister.

 

So get lost in these five invincible masters of fiction as they take you through a dust devil of a storm that you won’t want to get out of.