In this unique collection of short stories based on actual situations, the author transports the reader into the classroom.

There, you will experience the feeling of being an outsider from a substitute teacher's point of view. In Sub Stories, Renee Cowdery's debut short-story collection, the stories take place in an educational setting—an elementary, middle, or high school.

Themes consistently touched on are starting over, the unknown, surviving a day at a time, and adult-child interaction. Throughout the thirty-one stories in the book, the author incorporates a glimpse of reality from everything to overcoming job obstacles, dealing with daily difficulties, and recovering from random mishaps, while occasionally just catching a break and owning the day.

Discover what it's really like to be alone in a room full of kindergartners or to attempt to teach a subject that you barely mastered in school. Find out why it's not as easy as it seems while sometimes it's the best job ever.