Four from Wishes

About the Book

Here are stories to challenge the reader’s mind and heart.  You’ve survived the wilderness, but can you survive civilization?  Is there someone for everyone?  Will you grab your dream or destroy it?  Who will you sacrifice to fulfill your ambitions?

Four from Wishes is a collection of three short stories and a novella.  In each, a woman reaches a point of decision.  What she decides will determine, not only her own happiness, but also the happiness or even survival of another.

In “The Edge of the World,” set in the nineteenth century, a young woman tells how she and a small group of women and children survived alone on an island in the South Pacific.  What she leaves out of her tale becomes more compelling than what she includes.

Tired of waiting for the perfect love, a woman of the very near future takes matters into her own hands.  With “Satisfaction Guaranteed,” the outcome will depend on a stranger knowing her even better than she knows herself.

“The Dreamer and the Dream” begins with a routine police call.  However, in futuristic New York City, routine calls can end with elevators full of snakes or stairwells full of dinosaurs.  Officer Washington finds herself sorting out dreams from nightmares.

“Battle,” the collection’s novella, is the story of Caroline and Elizabeth.  Caroline is a technician in a facility funded by a government eager to improve its citizens.  Elizabeth is a prisoner, an unwilling participant in the facility’s genetic experiments.  Knowledge, ambition, honor, and humanity become weapons as the women battle for their lives and futures.

About the Author

Judith K. Parker, known as “Wishes” to her online fans, lives in rural Ohio. A graduate of The Ohio State University and Wright State University, her paying (and most rewarding) job is teaching students with learning and behavioral problems. She is a Canadian-in-training and hopes to someday move to Vancouver, British Columbia, and write full-time. Meanwhile, she is keeping her day job. She has had two collections of poetry published. Waiting for Spring, published by Counterculture Press of Montgomery, Alabama, traces the feelings of loss and recovery following the death of a parent. Stone Pillars, published by Renaissance Alliance Publishing, Inc., of Austin, Texas, follows the emotional journey of a woman who fears only one thing, falling in love. Four from Wishes is her first book of stories.