Megan Payne: 14 books

Eleanore has lived an extraordinary life. Now, at 101, she faces her own mortality and she must decide whether she should finally share with her beloved granddaughter Isla a secret she has kept for 70 years. Isla has been jolted by her grandmother’s recent illness. Eleanore has been both...

Anna Elizabeth Hatcher is eleven years old and stuck with an accent that earns her peers' ridicule and none of her family's well-known talents to make up for it. One too many barbs from the class bully sends her into a classroom fight, her father's workshop, and the beginning of her journey to find herself. A novel

“…Christmas was a simple affair. It was a time when something “special” was all children asked for. Those were the days when my abuela—my grandmother—brought home food in a great woven basket…” Though it was Christmas Eve, Estrella Sanchez would be hard put to make it anything...

Margaret wanted everything to perfect for her returning college grad. What her daughter wanted was a different thing. A story in 100 words.

Chloe always had what she needed; so why didn’t Felicity? A story in 100 words.

Seth Morrison was a lonely man. He walked home from work three blocks away at a tall office building where nobody knew anybody unless required to harangue a certain amount of data from another in order to finish their job. He wore neatly tailored suits but lived in a cheap little apartment because...

The Elliott family had a Christmas tree, but it was not like any other Christmas tree on their very long street with dozens and dozens of neighbors going to and fro with shopping bags from every name brand store at the mall a block over. No, the Elliotts' tree was a very special tree. It was, as little four-year-old Gabe Elliott liked to call it, a giving tree.

Can the same God who made the stars and the snow and all of creation live in us?

A granddaughter learns what it means to dance. A story in 100 words.

Kensington County is home to several small towns, landmarks, and communities. In this collection of short stories, we meet the families of Simplicity Avenue. They are good people, good neighbors, good Christians, finding their way in their walk with God, each other, and their questions. Sometimes, you really don't need to know the answer. Short stories of love and family

Sometimes Christmas cheer can be difficult to come by... Nothing is going right for the Carlson family Christmas. With Christmas dinner burnt up, the decorating a catastrophe, and an unruly dog in the middle of it all, it will take the grace of God and all their Christmas cheer to have a very merry Christmas after all.

One boy, a bike, and a very big God. Tyler has every reason to believe he should just quit on his dream now, but with God, he can do anything.

Unicorns, with their single ivory horn, are elusive and magical creatures of myth. Yet even more elusive are the purple unicorns. First sighted at the Superstars Writing Seminar, their legend has grown year after year until it could only be contained in this anthology. Nineteen storytellers,...

Alt Hist Issue 9 brings you the best new writing in historical fiction and alternate history. This issue features six new short stories and takes the reader from German occupied Yorkshire to Samurai-era Japan, via the Bermuda triangle, medieval Wales, the Vikings and post-war Ireland. You’ll find...