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Table of Contents: Silent Night, Lonely Night by Pam Thompson The Writers' Workshop by Ned Downie Lost and Found by Ruth Rakestraw Great-Aunt Gert and the Outlaw by Velda Brotherton Pleasantville Justice by Ann Holbrook Sacrifice Rock by Jan Morrill Grandmother by Bud Hanks The Greatest Trickster by M. Carolyn Steele Bubble Gum Messages by Ruth Burkett Weeks Disintegration by Georgia Alderink The Watch by Sandy Jordan A Different World by Joan M, Barber Bogey Deals and Tee Times by Jean E. Meadows VBS Blues by Linda Apple An Old Wizard's Folly by D.W. Bahnks Arctic Survival by Patty Stith A Funeral Ain't the Place by Dusty Richards The Gathering by Delois McGrew Skipping Stones, a short story anthology, showcases the work of members of the Northwest Arkansas Writers Workshop and the attendees at their annual one-day conference. It demonstrates the variety of talents these authors possess, and includes stories in different genres, including science-fiction, western, mystery, humor, literary, and everything in between. Submitters are a Spur Award winner, a finalist in the prestigious Willa literary Awards, award winning writers, published writers, and writers published for the first time. These writers' iniaginations will carry you from a frozen planet to the frozen Arctic Circle, from the present to the past, to places real and imaginary, but all with their own story to tell.