TNae Wilcox

The Missing Loved Ones is a work of speculative fiction. It includes the last 3 short
stories I͛ve published, plus 4 shorter stories that are new. I chose the title because it was
a common theme. It͛s not necessarily someone not being there physically, except for in
2 of the stories. In He’s You the son was dying and the parents found an unnatural way
of dealing with the pain, because they didn͛t want to miss him.

In the other stories though, for example, The Prankster in the Box, it was the
brother who was a completely different person than the sister remembered. In The Gift,
it was both wife and husband who͛d ͞gone missing͟. It͛s about waking one day and
realizing that someone you love is (or close to being) someone else. Unrecognizable in
some cases.

It’s hard to just pick one. I love The Gift because it’s about marriage and I’m married, so I can relate. Then there’s He’s You, which I think might be unpopular with readers, but I liked it because it’s about this little boy who comes home from a miraculous recovery and finds out that he’s not done fighting yet.

I’ll choose the story Safe Word, that’s the bonus story and has nothing to do with the title at all. It just touches on a subject I’m passionate about, which is bullying.