Kaleidoscope: 20 Stories Celebrating Women's Magazine Fiction
Ellyn Bache
A woman takes up running as she struggles to return to normal after her divorce.
A mother stays home with her children during a school break but longs to be at work -- until her presence becomes crucial in averting a near-tragedy.
A family buys a dream house only to discover its all-too-helpful resident ghost.
A brilliant engineer deals with the social consequences of being told she's too fat.
A teenager thinks her parents are beyond the sexuality she is discovering in herself -- until her mother gets pregnant.
An insecure teen feels like an "extra" in her own life until she becomes an extra in a movie.
A woman avoids romance so her strange "gift" won't be ridiculed -- as when music makes translucent pryamids dance before her eyes, or mint tasts like cool glass columns.
Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, always entertaining, these stories feel remarkably contemporary, touchin the heart of women's concerns, then and now.