Soul's Road: A Fiction Collection

Product DescriptionSoul's Road is a deeply beautiful collection of short stories by both recognized and new voices in contemporary fiction. There are names that you have read before and names that you will soon fall in love with. Each story is a work of truth, of art and of vast, uninhibited imagination. Stories range from explorations of love, identity and the meaning of family to fictionalized memoir that is both wonderfully touching and genuinely funny. From Ann Keeling's "Singing of the Sun," a deeply moving story about a woman's choice between her job, her boyfriend and his son and the music of it all to Deborah Grace Staley's "That Girl" a beautiful memoir about the birth of a writing career, these stories ask difficult questions and give powerful answers. Soul's Road ranges from stories exploring how a family can endure the impossible--John Schimmel's "Chimera," to the misadventures of a frankly speaking presidential candidate--Nathan Chang's "On the Campaign Trail."  Each contributor to Soul's Road has completed or is in process of completing a Master of Fine Arts degree and has studied under such highly praised writers as Goddard College faculty Ryan Boudinot, author of Misconception and Blueprints of the Afterlife, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, author of Three Apples Fell from Heaven and The Mirror in the Well and Victoria Nelson, author of The Secret Life of Puppets and Rogue Male. Contributors like Deborah Grace Staley and Sidney Williams have published extensively. Deborah Grace Staley's What the Heart Wants took the number one spot on Amazon for romantic suspense and was winner of the 2011 Holt Medallion for Excellence in Mainstream/Single Title Romance. Sidney Williams has re-released several of his spine-tingling novels, including Gnelfs and Night Brothers. From the AuthorWe are drawn to discovery, the discovery of self, of passion, of muse, of all the things that create the light and the dark inside those spaces our souls reside. This collection of stories is the exploration of that philosophy, philosophy of the Soul's Road. Thirteen writers telling thirteen unique stories of what it's like to travel that road. Stories that explore what it is to feel love, to be man or woman or something beyond, of the loss of family, the loss of innocence, or the loss of society as a whole. From fiction to memoir to comedic irony, these stories travel that road with grace and power and most importantly, with truth. I am so proud to be a part of this project, to have seen each story grow. I am proud too at how deeply these stories sing to the reader, how they have become a whole, together. Soul's Road is more than a simple collection of stories; it is a journey inside, through the heart, the mind, the body and, of course the soul itself. I will always remember that flash of feathers, the feeling of my mother's hand on my own. I know now that the ducks had their road to travel and that we have ours. I invite you, dear reader, to walk a while on this road, to listen to these stories and find those truths that speak to your heart. We all have our road and I hope you'll enjoy walking ours. List of Contributors to Soul's Road: A Fiction CollectionJohn SchimmelNatasha OliverIsla McKettaKaren K. HuggPhil PaddockSidney WilliamsDeborah Grace StaleyAnn KeelingPeter McMinnPaula AltschulerJoseph PierceIcess Fernandez RojasNathan ChangCody T Luff, as editor