In 2009, my writer-friend Shawn Smucker found himself in a tough situation. His construction-based small business was in debt and the bursting housing bubble was making recovery from financial distress less and less likely. Shawn and his wife, Maile, decided that they would move their family of six into Shawn’s parent’s basement and attempt to find a way to reset their lives. Shawn and Maile talked it through and decided that since they were in a re-setting mode, they might a

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