Since 1996, the Puerto Vallarta Writers Group has provided a home for authors published, self-published, and aspiring.

This year, the PVWG has created an anthology of its writers’ best short stories.

Included in this eclectic collection, you will find winners and losers, murderers and victims, talking dogs and terrified children, fairy tales and love stories, whimsy, comedy, and outright horror.

In other words, the whole panoply of what it means to be human. (Even the dog)

The stories are about evenly divided between authors who have been published before, and those who are seeing their work in publication for the first time.

We believe that they are all excellent, and we invite you to read them for yourself. We promise an enjoyable reading experience.

Cover design by Ted Druch and Colin Hamilton

Book design by Ted Druch

 

~Contents~

Forward                                               ~1~

Tribute & two Stories                         ~3~                              

Don Gallery

Dedication                                             ~8~

Taking Care of Business                    ~11~

Janelle Diller

Stormy Weather                                  ~29~                            

Douglas Allen Danielson                                 

Brotherhood of Chairs                       ~47~

Marie Beswick~Arthur

The King’s Garden                             ~61~

Terra Mar

Vivian                                                   ~73~

Maria Ruiz

The Birthmark                                    ~83~

Donna Harper

The Prank                                            ~89~

Theodore P. Druch

A Day at the Camel Races                  ~101~

Robert Lamb

Freezer Breakdown                            ~109~

Susan Calder

Whatever the Reason                          ~121~

Virginia Tindall

The Savoy on 23rd                             ~129~

Erin Staley

You can Count on Me                       ~137~

Ellen Greene

Romantically Inclined                         ~149~

Ron Sitarski

Flower Children                                  ~157~

Judith St. Gaudens

Soraya’s Journey                                ~169~

RosAngelica Moreno

Fast Food                                             ~183~

M. Thomas Pulley 

Acknowledgements                            ~193