Category: excerpts
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Saturday Snapshot
A little bit of the calm before the storm that’s about to hit my work in progress. There’s a reason I titled it Heartwood. Here’s a glimpse. I hope you enjoy. “This is my pride and joy,” Grace patted the dappled gray trunk of her apple tree. “Come up close. It’s the only way to really…
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Flash Fiction: “A Bloody Mess”
If anyone ever asks where my ideas come from, I’ll be able to say honestly, “Facebook posts plus illness-related sleep deprivation plus general depravity.” I’m blaming this one on a friend’s post about a dripping ceiling fan. I have no idea if I’ll ever do more with it (or if it’s worth pursuing) but I have the shape of the story jotted…
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Decision Point: a bit of flash fiction
This short piece was first written for an online site a few years ago. I recently converted it to first-person present tense for the fun of it. Verb tense does change the feel of the story. Not sure if it works or not, but it’s done, so up it goes. We don’t belong here. This rocky path high in the San…
