A Celebration of Storytelling

A Pageant of Fantasy. A Feast of Thrills. A Revelry in Mystery. A Colloquium of Science Fiction. These four components are combined in this volume to celebrate the art and culture of storytelling. Each tale contains a festival, fair, carnival, or celebratory event to honor the antiquity and the importance of writing and scripture: to record history or to alter it, to entertain all types of populations, and to explore and explain the world around us. We are honored to have 58 stories from the below 39 authors. Their talents have embodied the mission of this anthology. From all walks of life, they have unique abilities to excite and inform, to render realism and alter imagination, to amaze, delight, terrify, and fascinate us as readers. Their work is more than worthy of this, A Celebration of Storytelling. Hansen Adcock Justin Boote Gustavo Bondoni Kenneth Bykerk Dwain Campbell Laura J. Campbell Gregg Chamberlain Stuart Croskell Lawrence Dagstine Danielle Davis GD Deckard Kevin M. Folliard John A. Frochio Steven Gladwin Kelly Kurtzhals Geiger Elana Gomel Max Griffin L. L. Hill Tim Jeffreys Carl R. Jennings Adrian Ludens Stefan Markos Jonathon Mast Andrew McCormick Jason J. McCuiston Bruce Meyer Christine Morgan Peter Emmett Naughton KB Nelson Gregory L. Norris Quinn Parker Eric Reitan Alistair Rey John B. Rosenman Bradley H. Sinor Susan P. Sinor Nickolas Urpi Christopher Wheatley Martin Zeigler