In this collection of contemplative tales, we explore what happens when: A hard-driving smokejumper finds it’s not always best to be a loner;

Starving reality game-show contestants turn to the only remaining food source;

A virgin surrogate mother faces a firestorm of pious rage;

A woman is haunted by the irrevocable choices her parents made long ago;

An enemy combatant learns that those in authority misuse their power.

Phil Harvey’s short stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won the Antietam Review award. His fiction has appeared in a dozen literary magazines including Phantasmagoria, The MacGuffin, Natural Bridge, and the Dos Passos Review. Harvey’s first novel, Show Time, was hailed as a thinking reader’s thriller and a thoroughly entertaining read.