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Flash Fiction # 245 -- Saving Everywhere. Part 29: Help

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Missed Monday!

I missed my the Monday post.  I've been trying to keep up with a weekly schedule, but it just slipped past me this week.  Maybe I should have an alarm or something.

Not that I actually have anything going on.  Let's not pretend I missed the post because I had something neat and new happening.  Nope.  Just got caught up in writing, mostly.  The edits for Raventower & Merriweather 2: War are

Flash Fiction # 244 -- Saving Everywhere. Part 28: Return

(Previous)I couldn't say I minded that Lt. Marsh and the others didn't trust me.  I could understand the trouble from their side, being so new to the world of magic.  I could, I found, still understand how the people around me felt.  This was not natural, and the sounds of growls and odd words shouted in the thick woods sent a chill through me as much as it did them.Marsh turned out to be

More Egypt

This is the last week of March?  A quarter of the way through the year already?  It isn't possible!I still don't have Journey of a Thousand Truths finished.  It has stalled at a scene I simply can't 'see' yet, though I think another little piece of it came to me tonight.  I hope that it all comes to me in the next few days so that I can get to the ending.  I'm getting close.  It's silly to

Flash Fiction # 243 -- Saving Everywhere. Part 27: Encounter

(Previous)The soldiers brought their rifles up as soon as they saw me.  I heard someone shout 'it's him' and knew that couldn't be good."Go Edmond!" I ordered.  I saw the cat charge straight for the nearest tree and climb up.  That wasn't so his best move, but had probably been instinctive.  He'd be trapped --No.  He would fly away when he got up high enough.  Time to worry about myself now. 

The End is Near

Devlin 4: Missing Persons is pretty much done.  Today I will be doing the final formats and then publishing at Smashwords and Kindle stores.This is another of those books that simply should not have taken so long to edit as it did.  I knew something was wrong, though, so I kept bouncing off of it.  Once I fixed a couple problems, I moved very quickly through the rest of the work.It happens.

Flash Fiction # 242 -- Saving Everywhere. Part 26: Closer

(Previous)We were well away from the soldiers before I began to relax.  Then I relaxed so well that I went to sleep.  It had been a long time since I felt safe enough to really rest.  Edmond curled up in my lap. I didn't think Lucy minded.  The couple times I lifted my head and glanced her way, she was humming away to music only she could hear.  My mother did that sometimes.  Maybe I'd get a

The Last Edits

I am almost done with the edits for Devlin's Team # 4: Missing Persons.  This one fought me for three months and then suddenly fell into place  I give credit where it is due -- to the two new stuffed plot bunnies I sat on top of my monitor and who are keeping close watch on me, along with their larger companion, also new.  This is stuffed plot-bunny season, people.  Go out and buy yourself

Flash Fiction # 241 -- Saving Everywhere. Part 25: Not Here

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As the men with the big rifles moved in closer, Edmond slinked his way back to the bed behind them.  "I am a pillow, right?  I can be a pillow."



"Edmond is a pillow," I said.  "I am not here."



Lucy never looked our way. She'd shut down the truck, and opened the door when they ordered her to and she slid out, the door open wide, and me right there where they could see

Smashwords Sale!

In honor of Read an Ebook Week, all of my fiction at Smashwords is either half price or free!https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi... sure to click on the 'view more' when you get down to the bottom of the list.  I have a lot of publications.  Smashwords provides formats for every major ebook reader, including Kindle, Nook, Kobo, etc., plus PDF versions so that even if you don't have