Since our hope is that everyone is out doing stuff instead of contemplating stuff this summer, we offer you something completely different for your reading pleasure--at least until fall.

The Deadline Cafe is a serialized story written by William Anthony (whose first novel, "Farnsy" was recently published to great acclaim) and us, your storied stuff curators.  We hope this collaboration delights and provokes and keeps you reading until we return in the fall with more stuff and more stories.

If you're packing for a trip or cleaning out the garage and stumble across something with a past, a piece of your history, and are inspired to write a storied stuff or two, be sure to send it --over the summer we'll continue to read, accept and organize pieces for fall.

The Deadline Cafe, you might notice, is not necessarily a summer story.  It takes place in the Midwest winter deep freeze and might seem an unlikely choice for summer reading.  But with a triple digit heat dome moving west to east as we type this, a brisk snowy tale of mystery and romance seems, to us, the very thing we crave. 

After all, even the Hallmark channel programs Christmas in July, and who are we to argue with an entertainment giant?

Read and savorThe Deadline Cafe, and let us know what you think. Post a comment on the storied stuff facebook page or contact us here.

Have some serial with your cereal!  We humbly suggest that our story goes really well with your morning coffee. Hot or iced as the case may be.

S & S