Year: 2020

Within a span of four weeks, I received rejection emails from three publications and two publishers. How did I react? I hid under my cozy […]

Never Far from Home I opened my eyes and fought back the dread as I watched my husband pack his laptop. It was a typical […]

You’ll never amount to anything. You’ll drag us all down with your foolish ways. It’s your fault your mother’s tired. It’s your fault your brother […]

Chapter 1 I first meet the man in the well over a cup of coffee, twenty years after he died. “Jake, you want anything from […]

Where are the trees? I shift into first, then bump slowly across the cattle guard into Meteor Ranch. I tap the brakes and stare in […]

Callouses on my fingers and feet snagged the rough bark of my perch. It was difficult to recognize Eku’s olive green skin among the leaves […]

Ch 1 The Office Visit It had been seven long years since I’d found myself back in that office. The blinds were drawn, as they […]

Chapter One “Emmett Walsh, don’t you dare cheat!” I called as I kicked off my shoes. I grabbed fistfuls of the heavy fabric of my […]