Naked Came the Plowman

Elsner, B.J.

Literature & Fiction

Midwest Writing Center

: The book begins with the dramatic rescue of the Swedish lady’s maid, Anna, by the Italian lifeguard, Roberto. They are taken to the rescue ship, where the comatose Anna is misidentified as Miss Lydia Addison (Anna’s employer’s daughter and Roberto’s sweetheart). Roberto decides to go along with the misidentification because he thinks that it would benefit both of them. When Anna regains her memory, Roberto disappears from her life for a while, but returns to create more problems for her. Anna’s beau, John, helps her when it’s discovered that she is an heiress and that Roberto claims that he is an heir. : The book begins with the dramatic rescue of the Swedish lady’s maid, Anna, by the Italian lifeguard, Roberto. They are taken to the rescue ship, where the comatose Anna is misidentified as Miss Lydia Addison (Anna’s employer’s daughter and Roberto’s sweetheart). Roberto decides to go along with the misidentification because he thinks that it would benefit both of them. When Anna regains her memory, Roberto disappears from her life for a while, but returns to create more problems for her. Anna’s beau, John, helps her when it’s discovered that she is an heiress and that Roberto claims that he is an heir. : The book begins with the dramatic rescue of the Swedish lady’s maid, Anna, by the Italian lifeguard, Roberto. They are taken to the rescue ship, where the comatose Anna is misidentified as Miss Lydia Addison (Anna’s employer’s daughter and Roberto’s sweetheart). Roberto decides to go along with the misidentification because he thinks that it would benefit both of them. When Anna regains her memory, Roberto disappears from her life for a while, but returns to create more problems for her. Anna’s beau, John, helps her when it’s discovered that she is an heiress and that Roberto claims that he is an heir. : The book begins with the dramatic rescue of the Swedish lady’s maid, Anna, by the Italian lifeguard, Roberto. They are taken to the rescue ship, where the comatose Anna is misidentified as Miss Lydia Addison (Anna’s employer’s daughter and Roberto’s sweetheart). Roberto decides to go along with the misidentification because he thinks that it would benefit both of them. When Anna regains her memory, Roberto disappears from her life for a while, but returns to create more problems for her. Anna’s beau, John, helps her when it’s discovered that she is an heiress and that Roberto claims that he is an heir.

Maiden of the Titanic

Setterdahl, Lilly

Genre Fiction

Midwest Writing Center is pleased to announce that Stephen Frech's collection, The Dark Villages of Childhood, has been selected by our panel of judges as the winning manuscript in our first annual chapbook contest. Dr. Frech is Associate Professor of English at Millikin University in Decatur, IL. Stephen Frech's great strength in The Dark Villages of Childhood is not the elegant metaphor, though he has some of these, but the uncanny selection of mundane details that startle by their rightness.

The Dark Villages of Childhood

Stephen Frech

The art-of-luck, “Hero of the Titanic” inherits a beach house and falls in love with Julia, but loses her because she is too young for him. Roberto becomes ill, and after a year in the sanitarium he sails home to Genoa, where he dates Tessa. When Italy enters the war, he serves on a hospital ship and become a war hero. But Tessa has not waited for him. Disappointed he returns to Boston and once again meets Julia, who is now ready to be his wife.

Hero of the Titanic

When she loses her job and her lover in one fell swoop, art history professor Rose Ming agrees to accompany her mother on an annual visit to relatives in her Chinese hometown of Three Rivers. Once there, Rose learns that she, her mother, aunt, and her cousin, Hong-Mei, have all shared a strange dream prompting them to search for an ancestor nobody seems to remember. With her future uncertain, Rose decides to solve the family mystery, and instead unearths an unutterable tragedy hidden for over a hundred years.Living in the last decades of the Qing dynasty, Peony, Lady Han, has every material comfort, a doting husband, and two beautiful children. With so much to share, she decides to adopt Jasmine, the daughter of her devoted maidservant, A-mei, giving her the advantages of a comfortable upbringing. But while Peony's daughter, Iris, embraces Jasmine as a sister, the new addition to the family has deeper repercussions throughout both families, altering more than one future. And when Rose discovers the true history of the Han and Wang families, including their unbearable losses, she learns the meaning of love, friendship, family, faith, and the sacrifices people are willing to pay to achieve them, a lesson that allows her to face her own future with new courage.

Flowing Water, Falling Flowers: 流水, 落花

Collins, X H

Field Notes Recovered from the Expedition to Devil's Peak

Laura Ring

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