Been under a great deal of stress of late; having learned that the pain in my leg is not just an increased level in pain, caused by a motorcycle accident I was involved in 1990, but rather a non-union fracture that I’ve been living with, unbeknownst to me, for the past nineteen years. The doctor [...]
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My mission was clear, determined in the hours preceding my slumber. A journey must be made in order to obtain the necessary information to formulate my plot. And so under the cloak of darkness, when my body and mind were at rest and the door to world’s unknown lay open and waiting, my spirit took [...]
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The house was almost 200 years old when I lived there as a child; one of the oldest in the village. There were trees around it then; one in the corner where the small pine is now and one in the front, across from the porch. This one had a large bolder beside it that [...]
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She was in the courtyard shucking oysters for the stuffing, when the old woman came shuffling out the kitchen door; her empty basket hooked over her arm, heading straight for the garden to dig turnips and pick fresh greens. It was the first time she’d accepted Trey and Nan’s invitation to join them for Thanksgiving; [...]
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There was a large church that sat on the corner across the street from her house. She used to go there when things got too spooky at home; seeing them watching from the second-story window, trying not to look, but feeling their eyes on her all the same; knowing she was safe and they couldn’t [...]
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We were friends, best friends in my estimation, although he was too cool to hang with me at school on a regular basis, he would occasionally sit with me at the burger joint across the street at lunch, if all the other tables were full. But after school, once we’d had dinner and were settled [...]
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After much unwanted stress and a long overdue meditational journey, I’ve made a decision, set my course and am happy to announce that my next release, which is being fervently worked on, will be Kindred Spirits. I’ll be posting a full blurb and cover on my website, but thought I’d throw out a little teaser…
Kindred [...]
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