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Azalea Manor--Abbie and her children move into an old manor house temporarily
while her mother's estate is settled and the property is sold. Soon she begins to feel a strange sense of belonging, but
someone or something wants her out of the way. As she stares at the old portraits, she gets the uncomfortable feeling that
she is being watched, but by whom? Are they here to protect her or make sure this old home stays empty forever? The setting
of this story is based on the real Azalea Manor, a restored historic bed and breakfast in Madison, Indiana. Take the story
and see if you can find the clues!
Quicksand--Lily and her husband, Marcus, are given
devastating news. Their child has a brain tumor and is only given a few months to live. Each learn to cope with this tragedy
in different ways, but there is only one way to get out of quicksand.
Breathe--Centuries
ago, men fought over the right to land. Then the war moved to the fight for clean water. Now, nations are pitted against nation
for air. The world is divided between domed cities and regions where humans are left to make a choice: share the air and die
sooner or hoard the air and watch their neighbors die.
Carving Egg Shells--An
elderly woman spends hours every day carving intricate, beautiful designs into the shells of various kinds of eggs. When her
son announces that he can no longer care for her, it creates conflict in the family that threatens to crack family bonds forever.
Pages--It was an accident. No one really intended for the vast amounts of world
knowledge to be stored only on the World Bank super servers. They were deemed infallible, self correcting themselves before
any real damage could be done. Human kind had transformed into mere translators of information. The few knowledge generators
passed their information directly to the servers and no longer to other humans. Everyone had access. But that was before the
accident. Now, wars were fought over scraps of paper, the remnants of artifacts called books, as humankind tried to pull themselves
back together and start over.
Chicken Scratch--When Riley left her rural community
of Ragwood two decades earlier, she vowed that she would never be back. As soon as her high school commencement
concluded, she threw her bags in the back of a friend's pick-up and left her bewildered parents and a young man who
loved her in a cloud of dust. Now her father is dead and her mother is distraught. As Riley heads toward the small
town of her youth, the world seems to slow down and she is filled with dread. Can she face the demons that drove her away
or will they finally get her for good?
227--She was just a number. When a distraught young
woman emerges from an abandoned building weilding a bloody knife and little else, authorities try to piece together who
she is and how she got there. Right now, they only know one thing: She calls herself 227 and the blood on the knife does not
belong to her.
Route 6--For Therese, life has been anything but easy. From an unfulling job to an unfulling
marriage, Therese decides to leave it all behind. Packing her bags, she sets out on a journey that will change her forever,
but first, she has to make it beyond Route 6.
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