I was honored to be asked to participate in a new anthology called, Letters to Me. Letters to Me is written by an eclectic collection of writers, business people, ministers, and artists. Each essay is a letter from the adult to his (or her) younger self offering advice or life lessons or other tidbits of information the writer would have found most useful in his late-teen and early adult years. (Or, for some of us, it is more likely we would have ignored that advice from our

Instead of just posting ONE story to read online (which will likely be what I do, most Wednesday mornings) I thought I would start with posting a whole site: The short fiction section at a website called East of the Web. What caught my eye, here, is the treatment of each story as a sort of mini-book…each with a cover and synopsis, ready to be perused and read. As we move deeper into a digital age, it seems to me that THIS will be the direction short fiction takes, even within