Third Saturday Fiction

Portrait of the author
by Susan C. Price

It doesn’t hurt to ask (a short story)

By W.M. Dean

The letter said they’d shipped it to her three weeks ago. Their records showed it had been delivered. Had she checked with her neighbors? UPS would leave an item next door if you weren’t home.
    She went to the Collinses next door on the left. Young Mrs. Collins worked in an office, but she was home now on maternity leave. It would be her first. She’d learn soon enough what it was like.

Third Saturday Fiction

Portrait of the author
by Susan C. Price

Patsy (a vignette)

By W.M. Dean

The preacher concluded his sermon and stretched his arms out to the people. “Now, loved ones, as the choir sings ‘Softly and Tenderly,’ won't you come up and be saved?”