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She tried to sound casual.
“Hear anything last night?”
Justin pushed down his hair. It sprung right back up.
“Nope. Slept like I was dead.”
They were just words, but Cedar hated them just the same...

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He must have been nearly dead when he lifted off, adrenalin alone seeing him into the sky...

Animals know mad fear too… Chapter Thirteen of Juncture is up… Thank you for reading…

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There comes a time in a parent’s life when they can stop acting. Her failings firmed her resolve. This, she thought wryly, was often what parenting boiled down to. Don’t be like me.

Chapter Twelve of Juncture is up. And Cedar has to make a mother’s hard decision. Thank you for reading…

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Cedar thought of Steinbeck’s sadly beautiful ending; George lifting the pistol from his jacket, speaking softly as Lennie looked out to the river, soft rabbits hopping in his mind.

So many things we would like to go one way, so easily go another.

Chapter Eleven of Juncture is up. I see more and more folks checking in. Thank you so very much.

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She thought of the flayed chickens. A jungle of tentacles peppered with sharp radula, a crushing beak. Given the right circumstances, a grown man could disappear entirely...

Chapter Nine of JUNCTURE is up. Thank you for your kind interest…

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He was sitting on the toilet, bobbing clear of the water. By some miracle, he kept his place. He regarded me with childish delight, face charred black so that his eyes appeared huge. “I’m on the crapper,” he said. I saw the ragged hole at his left shoulder where his arm had been…

Chapter Eight of JUNCTURE is up. Again, I can see that people are reading. Thank you…

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“Sometimes, I hate who you are,” he said.

“Hate is precisely the problem,” Cedar said, blinking at the forks.

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She had never forgotten the sound of his cries, frightened, but wretchedly hopeless too, an oddly querulous lament. She wondered what a happy-go-lucky child dreamed that broke his heart...

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Oh yes, he was a different man with his hubris stripped away. I let him scream before I took him carefully apart, as if I might put him together again. He lay upon the sea, conscious of the jigsaw pieces floating about him.

One man meets his deserving, if excruciating, end. Chapter Five of JUNCTURE is up. Thanks for reading:)

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I am not the monster of anyone’s nightmares. I possess no razor talons, no yellow eyes, no unbalanced mind or morals. I am capable of short bursts of speed, but as I said, I am rarely quick, and I am far from lithe. From a distance, without the scope of proximity to account for size, my approach might elicit a laugh or a scratch of a temple; though as I grow larger the laugh is likely to clutch in your throat…

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