The Summer 2026 edition of Cultivating Oaks Press is online today, and the theme is “renewing charity.” My new short story, “Decision on the Stairs,” is fiction, but it’s based on something that happened to my wife and I in London in 2012. We were getting ready for our day when fire alarms went off, and the hotel had to be evacuated. The elevators were not an option; we were on the 14th floor, and the hotel was nearly full. There was no panic, but there was rising anxiety, and people were rushing to get out.
What happened on the stairs became a short story 14 years later. You can read the story here. You can access the entire issue here.
Photograph by H&CO via Unsplash. Used with permission.
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