Gail A. Webber

Whether mainstream, fantasy, science fiction, or something else, these thirty stories have a common theme—redemption and hope for at least one of the characters. But roads to redemption are never easy, and something always complicates the journey. The characters in these stories are all fictional yet you will recognize many of them. Perhaps one looks back at you from your mirror, or will, sometime in your future.

What if people who lived forty thousand years ago had developed working partnerships with animals, and what if only one woman in each tribe could speak with them? Kitane belongs to a tribe living seaside in what is now Indonesia. Her life is in upheaval because the Speaker was killed and because of strange visitors, intrigue among the elders, and silence from the gods. Kitane knows she is the new Speaker, and when the tribe refuses to recognize her, she knows she must act. And courageously.