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From Sarria to Santiago: A 10-Day Camino With Family and Friends follows John as he embarks on an unforgettable 115-kilometer pilgrimage across northern Spain with two families including three teenagers. He quickly learns that everyone walks the Camino in their own way. While planning their epic journey, he must accommodate the parents' concerns such as: "We have private bathrooms, right?", "You know I can't walk more than 12km a day," and "Can someone else carry my stuff?"Then he must manage the teenager issues like: "Why is there a fly in my room?", "Is that a blister?", "Why do I have to wake up?", "What rain?" "Can we have pizza again?"John invites his readers to experience his joys and challenges, successes and insights, as he walks the Camino and shares stories told by his fellow pilgrims about what inspired them to make their own incredible journeys to Santiago de Compostela. It is a trip none of them will soon forget.

ACROSS FLORIDA STRAITS follows a bastard son of a young Cuban dancer growing up in an all-inclusive Soviet resort on the south of Cuba. His lothario larceny leads to entanglement with trafficking art antiquities and a desperate need to escape Cuba. Matvey's story spans post-revolution life in Cuba through the Special Period, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. His perilous journey ends in the Dry Tortugas National Park with the possibility of a new life in Key West. This story of love, life in Cuba, deceit, and thievery reveals the stress of navigating between two different societies and political systems, divided by the Florida Straits.

Emotionally Broken is a story that revolves around Katelyn-a young blue-collar steel mill worker in Detroit. She has two beautiful daughters and lives with her mother. Katelyn keeps to herself socially, not making any time for going out on the town or dating. During the company's continuous improvement efforts, they send Jonathan to the facility from corporate office, a successful senior manager from Chicago. Jonathan is handsome, charming, and turns Katelyn's world upside down. She daydreams romantically about him all day, every day. Katelyn catches Jonathan distantly admiring her but she doubts his interest; someone of his stature is unquestionably out of her league. But Jonathan is interested, and they court. Katelyn is a shy, passive lady and she allows her lack of self-confidence to accept and ignore all the "almost" invisible red flags.Katelyn is swept away under the illusion that she has found her prince charming through Jonathan's attention, elaborate gifts, affection and promise of a wonderful future together. She is blinded by love meanwhile there is a toxic relationship that is lingering in the shadows with a person who is mentally affected by Narcissistic Personality Disorder.Their six months of courtship approaches like a speeding bullet and they become engaged. The relationship is dysfunctional, emotional roller-coaster and feelings of walking on eggshells around him becomes her norm. Katelyn finds her fairy-tale marriage ends with shattered vows of control, criticism, and narcissistic abuse but she will not confine herself to her circumstances leaving with her girls and her dignity.

Fiction. Short Stories. Flash Fiction. Hybrid Genre. THE BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2017 offers readers 55 exceptional small fictions by 53 authors. This acclaimed new annual series, hailed as a milestone for the short story, continues to honor contemporary masters and emerging writers of short- short and hybrid forms from across the globe. Guest editor Amy Hempel chose the winners from a pool of 105 finalists: They conjure and seduce, they startle and haunt, they are funny and searing, short and shorter. The 2017 volume includes Pamela Painter, Brian Doyle, Ian Seed, Frankie McMillan, Karen Brennan, Stuart Dybek, and W. Todd Kaneko, and spolights Joy Williams and SmokeLong Quarterly. Additional Contributors include Nick Admussen, Nick Almeida, Lydia Armstrong, Matthew Baker, Amy Sayre Baptista, Larry Brown, Randall Brown, Erin Calabria, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Carrie Cooperider, Emily Corwin, Christopher DeWan, Kathy Fish, Sherrie Flick, Scott Garson, Jesse Goolsby, Michael Hammerle, Hannah Harlow, Allegra Hyde, Joy Katz, Jen Knox, Len Kuntz, Tara Laskowski, Oscar Mancinas, Ras Mashramani, Heather McQuillan, Cole Meyer, Eugenie Montague, Alvin Park, Kimberly King Parsons, Gen Del Raye, Mona Leigh Rose, Na'amen Gobert Tilahun, Cameron Quincy Todd, Matt Sailor, Rebecca Schiff, Robert Scotellaro, Alex Simand, Julia Slavin, Michael C. Smith, Phillip Sterling, Anne Valente, Harriot West, Keith Woodruff, William Woolfitt

On September 11, 2001, a businessman at the World Trade Center is called to retrieve a colleague's papers ten floors below his office and thus escapes the destruction of the plane smashing into the tower. Out on the street he abruptly decides to let everyone believe he is dead-and thus becomes "The New Man." Crossing the river into New Jersey, chance finds him in a Muslim neighborhood. Over the condensed surrealness of the week's upheaval, he meets twin Iraqi shop owners, an Iranian woman who claims to be the wife of the one of the Saudi hijackers, an Egyptian psychiatrist who is an amateur astronomer, and a former double of bin Laden (who did indeed have one). In an America abruptly forced to confront the Muslim world, the 9/11 survivor discovers his coworker's papers contain intelligence links to America's operations among the jihadists that had sent their fury into the heart of New York that September morning.