The Front Porch — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Front Porch: the place, literal or figurative, where Americans watch the world go by.

Journalists help expand America's front porch to a worldwide stage. They put on a pretty face and soften the blow of ugly news. They must hold the line between “need to know” and “too much information.”

But when the horrors of the world become just another day at the office, what cost will delivering the news exact on those at its heart?

[Rusch's] short fiction is golden.
-- John Mark Eberhart, The Kansas City Star