Hang a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door, turn off the phone, kick off your shoes and feast on this smorgasbord of fine writing--short stories, poems, non-fiction, book excerpts, even children's books and a stage play by the late Joe McCabe.

Choices are wide and varied:

• An eBay auction advertises a remnant of a child's shoe from Stutthof Concentration Camp.
  
• An illicit online affair leads to murder.
• A boy's childhood ends when his father shoots Santa.
• Visitors to a Specter Street mansion become part of a bizarre collection.
• A woman rediscovers her own courage through the death of a fawn.
• A housewife seduces her teenaged paperboy.

And many others.