Short Reads

Short Stories Book 2: A collection of gripping stories.
A cry for help hidden in a library book. A widow's secret admirer. A painting that was never what it seemed. Ten short stories, ten twists you won't see coming.

• Overdue: A librarian finds tiny pencil dots in a stack of returned mysteries, spelling out a message from her old fourth-grade teacher.

• One Yellow Tulip: A widowed florist delivers a single anonymous tulip to a widow every Monday, and grows jealous of the man who sends it.

• The Night Guard: When a priceless painting vanishes on his shift, a museum night guard's nineteen years of sketches hold the proof of who really took it.

• The Pie Feud: A new judge at a Kansas county fair discovers the truth behind a thirty-one-year pie rivalry between two bitter enemies.

• What Pepper Said: A grumpy widower's talking dog collar keeps repeating the same two words, and the dog is not talking about herself.

• The Lantern Keeper: In a mountain village where the dead visit by lantern light, a girl keeps a lantern burning for her lost father every night.

• The Keeper's Logbook: In 1888, a lighthouse keeper's widow fights to keep her light, and the inspector sent to replace her has come with a secret of his own.

• The Missing Ingredient: A celebrity chef built an empire on a grandmother's stolen recipe. Her granddaughter challenges him on live TV.

• Match: A woman on dialysis hears her estranged sister refused to be tested as her kidney donor. Then an anonymous donor comes forward.

• The Wish Jar: A three-dollar yard sale jar grants three wishes, paid for by the person you love least. Most people are surprised who that is.

Each story takes about five minutes to read. Book 3 of the Short Reads with Twists and Turns series. All stories are fiction.