L B Gschwandtner is an award-winning writer; in addition to the novelette, you can read more of her writing here.

Naked in the Garden
The pleasures of the flesh in a mid summer garden

The Books of the Bible
A writers’ group gets its collective panties in a wad over a simple idea.

The Late Shift
A supernaturally eerie night at the Gas N Go

Sweet Tart
What happens when animal instincts take over inside a marriage

Piney’s Way
A pretty newcomer shakes up the meanest boy in town
* A 2007 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Contest winner

In Colors of Summer, In Winter’s Chill
In a house filled with sadness, a sign of hope
* A Writers Digest 75th annual writing competition mainstream literary short story award winner

Maybelle’s Revenge
Maybelle has a bug up her butt
* A Writers Digest 73rd annual writing competition mainstream literary short story award winner

It Is A Songbird
A painting reveals the real person