One Tiny Moth Hole
Matilda parked Grandma under the tree while she hung the wet sheets on the line. “I love the smell of fresh laundry,” Grandma said as she watched her hired care [...]
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Nov, 2023
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Oct, 2023
Memorie and the Coyote
This is a reprint of one of my most popular stories, a fun little mystery for October. Enjoy! Memorie is in a cozy pace, propped up with pillows and notebook, [...]
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Oct, 2023
Questions About Heaven
Written with my Thursday group with the prompts: he loved babies and small children, you are in a hotel room, playing with fire, go hang a salami I’m a lasagna [...]
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Oct, 2023
Book Sale at The MACC
This Saturday, October 14th, I will be participating in the Annual Authors Day Book Sale at the Mills Station Arts and Cultural Center in Rancho Cordova. All four of my books [...]
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Oct, 2023
Naming
Written with my Thursday group with the prompts: she studied her face in the mirror, it was heavy, incredibly crucial, a red balloon landed next to him, settle down, a [...]
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Sep, 2023
Counterintuitive Curry
Written with the prompts: just a dream away, as inanimate as a lamp, overlapping, you know the one, hurry/curry/flurry, urgent information, save time, new friends, three years ago, don’t you [...]
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Sep, 2023
Stolen Conversation
Written with the prompts: conversation stealer, I am I am, the story of your name, the name of a bar in New Orleans, the brother stared out the window, new [...]
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Sep, 2023
Minding the Gap
Written with the prompts: the dog is an absolute horror, punctual, more than ready, broke her ankle, possible, this was the plan, ambled up the street, tell me again, all [...]
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Sep, 2023
Maddie Greenwood and Her Pig Jane
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: broken promises, behind closed doors, beyond words, what do you see? I'm not so strong anymore, a lion came to me [...]
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Jul, 2023
Beach Reads??!!
Time for some summer reading recommendations! Summer is traditionally a time for light beach reads--romances, mysteries, and such. But when I was teaching, summer break was when I’d have time [...]