The best of Kim Bond's short stories plus fresh new fiction have been collected in The Footstool. Read stories like “Gumdrop Alley,” “Baths of Cadara,” “Pesky Specters,” “The Other Me,” and many more! “Thank you for your difficult and charitable work in Christ for women in this horrible situation.” —Carolina Maine of Angoor Press, LLC writes about “Gumdrop Alley” “I enjoyed ‘Mud Maker’ and its somewhat formal but oddly personable narrative voice and intriguing spiritual/philosophical exploration.”—Lyndon Perry of ResAliens Press [“American Balloon”] is “well written and unique.”—Anna of Shadow Fiction