Take a journey through time and into the minds and hearts of a cast of not-so-ordinary characters. Among them you will find lost lovers; a child of the holocaust; a writer, her husband and a plate of spaghetti; a lonely old man and his loyal friends; a man's bargain; an elderly woman's future; a PI seeking the father of a lost daughter; a father seeking revenge for a beloved daughter; soldiers, families and wars remembered; poker buddies at odds; a haunted man; an orphan seeking a home; an orangutan with an attitude, and others. In this volume you will find the thirty winning, honorable mention, and editor's picks from the entries in the 2012 Creative Writer's Notebook Short Story Contest.