UNK’S FIDDLE
Stories to Touch the Heart

The stories in this book will capture you in the first line or two and draw you in. They are stories that make people feel good because they are about what is the best of us. They show how, when called upon, we can rise above the concerns of life that so often distract us and do the right thing.

These are stories about heroes. Not big, save-the-world heroes; everyday people, real people, who do heroic acts of kindness, caring and compassion. They reach off the page and grab our hearts in their gentle hands, and we are glad to place it in their keeping for a while.

• Winner of The Storyteller Magazine Readers' Choice Award
• Winner of My Legacy Magazine Editor's Choice Award
• Second Place, Ray Bradbury Short Fiction Competition
• Chicken Soup for the Single's Soul

"Unk's Fiddle is one of those beautiful tragedies that we love to cry over and which also reveals a bit of human nature. Steve Burt's touching but not maudlin story leaves us satisfied but thinking . . . Unk had a full life, but couldn't there have been more? In my opinion, a story that leaves us thinking is the best kind."
— Liz Aleshire, fiction editor, New England Writers' Network