FICTION
 

• A Special Day by Jeff S. Martindale
 
It always began the same way; the birth of a spring morning, and Papa, as though officially declaring the arrival of the season that replenished his energy and fueled the anticipation in his heart, declared, "It's baseball weather!  Let's get the car." 

• Autumn Whispers by Jimmie R. Pennington
 
Autumn whispers

of leaves dancing

on a gentle breeze,

• Seasons by William J. Schafer
 
Children, as they understand that change is a fuel in their bones and cells, also know that the world sometimes stands still, that last year comes again in a different guise, that what was becomes what will be.

• The Head of the Clan: A Southern Homecoming by Phoebe Kate Foster
 
A death in the family is a command performance and no excuse suffices for not showing up -- not work, not prior commitments, not living 1,500 miles away, and certainly not the mild case of benign estrangement that had allowed me to keep my Tennessee relatives at the other end of a long distance call for years

• FDR by Scottie H. Freeman
 
When I was 11, in 1934, Sister was 13 and Brother was 6 months, the family made a two day journey to Nashville to see President Franklin Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor in a parade.