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Cheeky Brat

“Jack, where have you been?” demanded his mother, casting a beady eye across the wasted garden, dead ogre, and her wastrel son. “Up the beans, conquered a giant, stole a fortune,” he replied. Jack and the beanstalk by ~ketchup-suicide on … Continue reading →

Stormy Weather

When night fell, you couldn’t see the wires. From her perch above the party, Sara tapped her foot to the swing and snap of Glenn Miller from the orchestra below. A hundred umbrellas floated over the assembled guests, suspended by … Continue reading →

Aboard the Mandarin Dragonet

“Dr. Sledge!” Alasdair Sledge set down his treatise on sub-surface ice formation at the sound of his colleague’s agitated cry from the laboratory. Dr. Dirham-Sears wasn’t given to excitability; she must have found something. Straightening his cravat, Sledge rose slowly. … Continue reading →

Blink’s Fry Doe: A Buck’s Landing Excerpt

Sofia couldn’t remember being so happy in Hampton, not since she was a child. With the panda looped under her arm, she walked in easy time with Silas. At the first cross street, he reached for her hand. Blink’s was … Continue reading →

Book Review: Trust Your Eyes

I don’t need to like the protagonist of a book to invest in him. Ray Kilbride is the man at the center of Linwood Barclay’s Trust Your Eyes. He’s approaching forty, single, stable, and though basically a good guy, not … Continue reading →

Face to Face: A Buck’s Landing Excerpt

“Of course I have a moment.” Sofia followed Mallory out the main entrance to the ballroom, into the corridor which led out to the Lobby. A tuxedoed man stood with his back to her in the middle of the Persian … Continue reading →

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Las Bordadoras (“The Embroiderers”)

The blogging world is a vast and wondrous place full of connection and discovery, generosity and support, from which I’ve recently benefitted. It only makes sense, then, to pay it forward as best I can. A few years ago, I … Continue reading →

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One Cake to Rule Them All

When my godson was tiny, I promised him any kind of birthday cake he wanted, every year, pretty much until he’s too big to think that’s cool. This past weekend, I celebrated his 9th birthday with him, and delivered on … Continue reading →

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Wingate & Henry

Sergeant Anders sighed through the phone, “We got another one on River Drive.” Mara Wingate flipped the turn signal and pulled a u-ey. The uniform riding along with her looked over with a question in his puppy-dog eyes. Six-foot-something and … Continue reading →

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Mena Photakis

He’d been enchanted by the woman since they’d both arrived. She’d spilled out of the passenger seat of a Chevy pickup, waving as the driver sped away with cheerful toot-toot. He was carefully disembarking from his taxi, strapping his briefcase … Continue reading →