What is your idea of the trip of a lifetime? Is it flying off to parts unknown? Traveling through parts of Europe? Lounging on a sandy Caribbean beach? Or do you prefer to stay closer to home and travel through your imagination? Sometimes the trip of a lifetime can be the one you never expected to take. And sometimes a trip becomes quite memorable for the wrong reasons.


In this collection of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction, you will find our contributors' ideas of the "trip of a lifetime." Perhaps you'll find your own ideas in these pages, or perhaps we'll spark the desire for you to go out and make your own memories!



Note: Some pieces contain adult content, language, or themes. Not suitable for younger readers.



Contributors

Carol Alexander

Carole Bellacera

Dianne Bown-Wilson

T. A. Branom

Tony Wayne Brown

Ann Carter

Krikor Der Hohannesian

Bruce Louis Dodson

T. Fox Dunham

Jay Faulkner

Ken Goldman

Michelle Hartman

Ann Howells

Susan L. Kaminga

Priscilla Kipp

Joshua J. Mark

Michael McLaughlin

James Olivieri

Carl Palmer

Eileen Dawson Peterson

Dawn Anderson Sevart

Mary Sexson

Gill Shutt

JeFF Stumpo

Bruce Turnbull

Susan Vespoli

Jon Wesick

Jen White