2025 Best True Unpublished Story
In an email to Ben Wygonik on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, 1:44 PM: I met this priest on a plane the other day. We talked for five minutes and I haven't been able to stop thinking about him. When I told him what I do he said he'd been an entertainment lawyer in California for 20 years and Joan Rivers...
In 1945, a commander defies orders to save a young man sent to a suicide mission. Seventy years later, his estranged brother returns to uncover the truth and face the past.
A collection of unsaid truths capturing the quiet ache of conversations left unspoken between me as a daughter and my mother in various stages of life where my mother's presence or absence haunts me constantly. Each poem is words from my heart that never made it out my mouth.
Tantalised by snippets of her grandmother Lucy's extraordinary stories of her life in China in the early 1900s Kate goes in search of where they happened a century later. The stories were true.
Part memoir, part meditation on resilience, The Stoic Rider is the true story of a woman who traded burnout for Bonneville and fear for freedom — proving it’s never too late to change your line, ride with intention, and come fully alive on the road and within yourself.
An inspirational story of love and war based on the true account of Makorongo, an East African serviceman who became a prisoner of war to the Japanese but was repatriated by Hans-Werner, his boyhood friend, before America bombed Tokyo in WWII.
From the age of three, Valerie Anne navigates her motherless foundation—enduring conflicts from child neglect, surviving Hollywood, to sexual predators, and breast cancer—by relying on her affinity for the sea in order to discover her own indominable spirit and sail through adversity into a world of...
