FROM BLANK PAGE TO STORY A Collection By Jim Atkisson What if stories aren't just entertainment-but shelter? From Blank Page to Story, Jim Atkisson brings together six unforgettable tales that explore fate, faith, imagination, and the quiet moments when ordinary lives brush against something larger than themselves. Set against backdrops ranging from small-town America to the skies over wartime Europe, these stories ask a simple but profound question: when the world feels overwhelming, where do we turn? Inside this collection, you'll find: A roller derby queen and a cult leader hurtling toward destiny during the summer of 1969. A devoted soap opera fan whose world-ending event interrupts the one story she needs to survive. A young hunter lost in the Appalachian cold, guided home by an unexpected presence. A ten-year-old boy facing grief, faith, and pressure when he steps up to bat, and where his belief matters more than certainty. A B-17 crew over Schweinfurt, Germany, where imagination becomes an act of defiance against fate itself. And, in a bonus holiday tale, an elf sent on a midnight mission to save a fading toy store-and the hope tied to it. These stories are funny, haunting, tender, and deeply human. Some lean into the fantastic, others into quiet realism-but all are bound by one truth: Stories help us endure. Stories help us return home. From Blank Page to Story is a celebration of imagination as survival, faith as courage, and storytelling as the most human act we possess.