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In 1948, nine years before the first successful satellite launch, space artist Chester Brache is hired to illustrate articles about space travel. The magazine's mysterious editors want him to produce paintings as realistic as possible, more than the usual depictions of the Moon's surface back then, so they take him "on location." What are their ultimate plans for a space artist like Chester?

In 1917, East Side Grade School in Eureka, Kansas, burned to the ground. In 1918, a carpenter died in a fall during construction of Mulberry School. It was said he haunted the school ever since. Teachers, students, and staff encountered apparitions after the school's dedication. One teacher knew the victim and welcomed any sign of his existence. Others, however, did not. She coped with the loss of her friend and managed to go on with unusual help from the universe.

In this historical novel, follow Suffragist Kathryn Wolfe in the years up to 1920 as she strives to hike a nearby tall hill despite a physical challenge, while at the same time works tirelessly alongside other suffragists in Kansas and Washington, DC, toward passing Suffrage in Kansas and the US (the 19th Amendment). Kathryn and other Suffragists endure hardships, harassment, attacks, and brutality in prison as they fight for the Vote.

The abandoned house in the country. You've passed by it. In a state of decay, its walls have witnessed the triumphs and tragedies of generations. There's nothing left but memories forgotten. If you believe that, you haven't been inside. Kayla buys a house in the Flint Hills town of Sycamore Falls, Kansas. The property includes a dilapidated old house out back.

Speculative fiction stories that are set in or about Archaeological Ruins. The protagonist in each story is an archaeologist who is a woman of color. Ruins range from those in the American Southwest to Central America, to the Andes Mountains to Egypt to the Middle East, Egypt to Aboriginal Australia, and across other areas. Some incorporate mythology of the ancient cultures who built and inhabited the ruins. Some of the protagonists are descendants of the ancient peoples of the ruins.

Professor Katie Robbins is pulled back in time to the 1937 town of Garrison, Kansas, her knowledge vital to save Blue Valley by joining the fight against the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1930s-1950s, who would flood ten towns to build a reservoir. Back then, opposing sides to damming the Valley discover an unusual time travel device, separate from what pulled Katie through time, that they use to try to gain advantage over the other side.