Becka daydreams about what life would be like if she were older and bigger than her sister Jenny. The narrator discusses being little, feelings, and friendship.

A young girl is unhappy with her sister's refusal to play with her.

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Mysterious, beautiful women with secrets are to be avoided. Leanne Dresher knows it with her head, but her heart has other plans. It's that wonderful time of the year in Christmas, Arkansas, when tourists descend and the little town's Winter Wonderland Festival pays everyone's bills through the rest of the long winter. Lee Dresher's art gallery will soon be swamped with consignments and bargain-hunting out-of-towners. What makes this season unlike all the others before it? Newcomer Becka James, whose pain-filled eyes speak of a loss she won't put into words. Lee tries her best to ignore the secretive Becka. But the newcomer seems to be around every corner, in the backdrop of every painting and the chorus of every lovelorn song on the radio. The flood of tourists brings thousands of new eyes to look over the residents of Christmas. But the only eyes Lee sees belong to Becka, who seems to be hiding something more than pain. It doesn't take long for Lee to discover that she could lose something more than her heart. 2007 Lambda Literary Finalist Frankie J. Jones (The Road Home) returns with this poignant and classic story of regrets and new hope.

If you love immersive fantasy stories with engaging characters and quick hooks, this book is sure to please. From classic fantasy to modern fantasy, you’ll find it here. Want to get lost in a great story without delving into a full length novel? Maybe you’re in the mood for a quick fix of fantasy fiction? “Troves of Fantasy” has you covered. Step away from reality with ten short stories that will teleport you into fantastical worlds of drama and action. “Troves of Fantasy” contains stories I have written over the course of many years, some of them inspired by my own dreams; perhaps the one upside to restless, dream-filled nights. May you enjoy reading them as much as I did writing them!

Poetry. "'How strange it is to live in these bodies /and pretend we are not judged;' writes Becka McKay in her newest collection; THE LITTLE BOOK OF NO CONSOLATION. McKay's imagination takes us far away from our earthly bodies through dreamscapes of terror and possibility. With a fanciful Dictionary of Misremembered English and mistranslated phrases as her guide; she reimagines Biblical figures; governments; and language's very syntax. McKay spins her poems as though spinning plates; on a pole of syntax all her own; the gyroscopic effect dazzling."--Denise Duhamel