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The Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories represents the best in contemporary short fiction. These eleven stories, including Annie Weatherwax's prize-winning story, "The Possibility of Things," selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler, demonstrate the power and variety possible in this vibrant literary form.

In this collection of twelve essays, Susan Tekulve explores the tasks we perform that earn us more than a paycheck. Tekulve's topics include the gathering of secret family stories; surviving a night of haggis and Scottish whisky; mothering a musician son; facing down two teenage gunmen, and caring for a dying mother. The key word in this collection is memory. Whether investigating common occurrences, or making narrative sense out of events for which there are very few words, these essays remind us that memories, and the shaping of them into stories, are the best kind of work.

Walter Cummins learned very early on that the writer he knew as a person, no matter how well, is not the writer whose words he read. Even when the material is autobiographical, even based on incidents he's heard about in great detail, the written version is another reality and the voice or character experiencing the situations a much more complex being than the person who told him about them. So, what does it actually mean to know a writer?

Czarina Catherine II, World Maker supreme and member of a magical political movement known as the Pan Buddhist Democratic Union, teams with a bizarre group of powerful beings including her younger self, the Princess Von Anhalt, violinist and World Maker Niccolo Paganini, and the sorcerer Zolo Bold for the purpose of preventing Earth's world wars in the 20th century-thereby disallowing a bloody end to the human species in the 21st at the hands of a ruthless immortal inventor better known to the world as Leonardo Da Vinci. From the early 16th century to the 21st, the "War for Utopia" rages.