Top 50 Short Stories This Year

Happy Harry, last of the Hobos, stops at a Colorado stream to take a bath. Instead of bathing, he ends up meeting the Goddess and becomes her servant. This introduces Happy Harry for the stories told by those that he helps.

A young halfling archer sets out to join the Town Militia.

Mary has a bang up Fourth of July.

A slave is asked to perform a task that he has performed many times before. But this time is different. This time he can not bear to do what has been asked of him and he risks everthing to flee captivity.

For more than seventy years Smith's Garage had been a fixture in the town. Someone decided that a house would look better at that location. A short and poignant look at politics.