Edify Fiction, May 2016 issues publishes Dennis J. Kafalas'', "When The Train Stops" short story. It is free to read at http://www.edifyfiction.com/uploads/4/4/2/9/44290661/ef_0517_pdf.pdf
Is it possible the new kid, Peter, a fourth grader at Saint Aloysius School, knows more about life and faith than the Sisters and students? Although carrying his children’s book with him for luck, Peter is violently introduced to the insular world of a parochial school. Only Franklin Carter, a classmate, learns of the boy’s illness, hopes, fears and dreams.
South Baltimore serves as the backdrop for this gripping story of three brothers leading very different lives but joined forever by the secrets of a painful family past.
The deep-dive literary meditations presented as stories, poems, and essays in The American Poet Who Went Home Again, A Mosaic of My Soul at Work, have captivated and inspired readers ever since its first paperback publication in 2008.
Hearts of Gold
Synopsis
by
Frank P. Whyte
Portland, Oregon is known as the City of Roses. Of course that’s an odd name for a city whose mere mention conjures images of driving winds and torrential ra