{"product_id":"9781922187871","title":"Skyline 2014","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSkyline 2014,\u003c\/em\u003e an annual publisher's anthology produced by Cyberworld Publishing, showcases the juried and invited prose and poetry talent of Central Virginia writers. The title of the anthology is taken from the Skyline Drive, the parkway skipping along the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia and providing centering for the region in which the authors showcased here are living and writing. There is no overarching theme for the works in this anthology, so each can be discovered as a fascinating gem of its own luster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Olivia Stowe.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes works by:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Black\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLori Dixon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhyllis Anne Duncan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJustin Fike\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCornelia Clay Fulghum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJody Hobbs Hesler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Collins Honenberger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary D. Kessler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhyllis Koch-Sheras\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Lancaster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan M. Lanterman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda Levokove\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSigrid Mirabella\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah Prum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElaine Ruggieri\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarilou Schunter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Doyle Solomon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlivia Stowe, ed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack Trammell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeonard Tuchyner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarvin Welborn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLavonda Lynn M. Young\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom: \"Don't Iron Your Clothes While They're on Your Body No Matter How Late You Are,\" by Deborah M. Prum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne night years ago I'm supposed to meet my husband and his colleagues downtown at a fancy restaurant at 6:15. It's 6:00. I'm not dressed. My three little kids have not been fed. The babysitter is about to walk in the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm stirring a pot of Kraft Mac and Cheese with one hand. And I'm running so late that, with the other hand, I'm ironing my black wool pants while I'm wearing them. Worse yet, I'm using a steam iron which is scalding my legs. But I'm desperate to be on time, so I keep pressing ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe phone rings. I try to answer the call on my cordless phone. No luck. Dead battery. So I head across the room to the wall phone in the kitchen, the one with the very short cord that I had been meaning to replace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA mellifluous voice comes on the line. She says, \"I'm calling from The Ladies' Home Journal. May I speak with Deborah Prum?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh no, I don't have time to deal with a subscription spiel. But I had just moved to the South. People here accuse us Northerners of being rude. So, I want to prove them wrong by shedding my Yankee ways. So I say, \"This is she, but I have to tell you I currently receive more magazines than I can-\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I want to talk with you about an idea.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith my short phone cord, I can barely reach the stove, and the orange, goopy mixture of macaroni and cheese begins to burn. \"This really isn't a very good time. Could you call back next week?\" Or never.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe woman seems taken aback. \"Well, I don't think so. We have space for your article in our next issue and the deadline is in a week. I don't think we have the time to discuss it later.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy article? My heart fills with conflicting emotions-elation because I realize she's an editor-someone is finally responding positively to one of my query letters-and panic because I have no idea which query letter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cyberworld Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062796992752,"sku":"9781922187871","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781922187871_p0.jpg?v=1763632624","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781922187871","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}