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In this 10th edition of Foxtales, members of the Fox Valley Writers Group share their literary skills by telling stories, drawing images through poetry, and discussing what being part of an annual publication means to them. Former FVWG coordinator Kevin Moriarity, who was in charge of the group when the original “Foxtales” was published in 2012, reflects on his pleasant surprise at how long the anthologies have run, and how things have changed for publishing in the intervening years. Author Nik Markevicius explores what happens when a single guy takes in a half-domesticated monkey and leaves the animal home alone with his dog, martial arts weapons and YouTube videos running on autoplay. Writers Marie Otte and Susan Schubert put their poetic skills on display in a variety of verse. Otte, who has been published on a spiritual website and related magazines, draws readers into a story of transformation, another about being a writer, and finally a poem about family. Schubert pens poetry inspired by her beloved getaway on Washington Island, in Door County, Wisconsin. Her stories range from the slow flow of life on lazy mornings to a bird who insists that she wake up as soon as the sun rises to a fresh breath of air that comes with a change in the weather to the world giving someone a much-needed sign. Author Victoria Hyla Maldonado takes readers into a few different worlds. In one, not much unlike our own, a man faces down the woman who abandoned her own flesh and blood with hopes of resolving issues between them. In another world, a woman unravels twisted memories and incomplete information pointing to her having murdered her lover, and must confront one of the worst things that could happen to a person to prove her innocence. Then, in a tale set on a world devastated by cataclysm, a woman must do what’s necessary to help her people live. Writer Rachel Bauer tells a tale of a woman searching for meaning in a seemingly empty world. Will she hee