Edited by Gillian Burnes

This book of thirteen stories by ten Maine writers give us memorable characters – on the mend, home again, woefully married, struck by lightning, unmedicated, bewitched, at sea, displaced, embarrassed, in love…and all headed for authentic, wholly credible happy endings.

Edited by novelist Gillian Burnes (Soft Features), this anthology includes stories by Burnes, Kaylie Borden O’Brien, Gerry Boyle, Nick Bushell, Robert Diamante, Art Dingley, Madison Ellingsworth, Eleanor Morse, Dave Patterson and Lynn Siefert.

“Happy endings get a bad rap in a culture devoted to dysfunction and disaster. But of course happy endings are human, too, and just what we need in our most troubling moments. These stories not only deliver the goods (and the good!) in the end, but in the beginning and the middle, too, and help answer the oldest question: What does it mean to lead a happy life?… I love these stories, and I love these happy endings, and I’m grateful to Gillian Burnes for gathering them up for us. –Bill Roorbach, author of Beep, Lucky Turtle, and The Girl of the Lake.

153 pages, $22.00