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Being bullied for the colour of her skin is the least of fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown's problems. Velvet was born with a terrifying second sight. She ';sees' the crazies, the psychopaths, those monsters sliding among us, hidden behind normal-looking faces. There's a double murder in her small-minded town and Velvet has seen the ';monsters' the murderers. But she can't download on her best friend, Kaleen Pingelly, or even go to the police. No one will believe her. And when love spins into her life in the shape of a sixteen-year-old racing cyclist, a guy so hot he makes Lycra look cool, Velvets problems rise to yet another level. To save herself and Kaleen from danger, Velvet must find evidence enough to prove to others what only she can see.';If you love horses, and a friendship you can believe in, and a little romance, and a little mystery, and a tale that keeps you guessing as you turn the pages, youve come to the right place.' Roisin Meaney, number one best-selling Irish author ';A pacy exciting ride through a plot layered with crime, special abilities, mystery and horses.' Paddy O'Reilly, award-winning Australian author Myra King is a Pushcart nominee. She has won the UK Global and been shortlisted for the US Glass Woman Prize and the Scarlett Stiletto. For many years she wrote for Hoofs and Horns, Rider and National Rider.

This is a story about growing up in a small racist town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, during the Apartheid years. The author is the oldest son of the town's mayor, a publican. He grew up between the hotel, where he was exposed at an early age to much of the town's less salubrious goings on, and a harsh boarding school experience. Garth relishes the simple language of a story told by cronies at the bar, where he served drinks to his father's customers in his holidays from the tender age of twelve. But the stories, some of them fabulous and more amusing or poignant for being real, are not told with nostalgia for the past. Patiently, as he pieces together his own backstory, he sees that it is a tiny fragment overlaying a much larger picture. The clash of indigenous inhabitants with a southerly expansion of Bantu tribes and the newly arrived colonists is developed as a secondary storyline, told in small vivid vignettes which run through the memoir as threads of reason. Its scope is vast but its tone is frank and disarmingly personal

The poet Sylvia Plath wrote in 'Black Rook in Rainy Weather', 'let spotted leaves fall as they fall / without ceremony or portent'. If I think of my stories as leaves, then they are leaves from many different trees. Or maybe they are just many different colours. These stories are selected from four collections published by Ginninderra Press and are my attempt to give every one of them - my stories, that is - another chance to fall willy-nilly into what I hope are your expectant hands. Zenda Vecchio is an award-winning short story writer and poet whose work has been published in a variety of literary journals and magazines. She has also had two young adult novels published, as well as a novel for adults, The Swan's Egg.