Original stories about Paris from the winners of the  2011 Paris Short Story Contest.    For some, Paris is home, for others, merely a dream. For Gaston, it is a bench, the anchor of his life. For Sue, a romantic city filled with scandalous, dark-eyed men, for Frank an all-consuming fire, for Mme Santinelli a ghost she'd hoped to forget.  By turns humorous, bittersweet, historical or surreal, each of these carefully selected* stories invites us to explore a different facet of Paris. 

* DISTINGUISHED JUDGES Elizabeth Bard, Cara Black, Janet Skeslien Charles, Charles and Clydette De Groot, Penelope Fletcher, Nicola Keegan, Anne Korkeakivi, Diane Johnson, Robert Stewart, Heather Stimmler-Hall, and Charles Trueheart in collaboration with Paris Writers News.

BEST PARIS STORIES by Jeannine Alter, Bob Levy, Lisa Burkitt, Nafkote Tamirat, Jo Nguyen, Julia Mary Lichtblau, Mary Byrne, Marie Houzelle, Jane M. Handel, and Jim Archibald.  220 pages. (Summertime Publications 2012) Paperback (May 31) and Kindle ebook (May 3)