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A Sudden Outbreak of Magic: Chapter One

Welcome back to my serialization of my contemporary fantasy novel A Sudden Outbreak of Magic.

I'll be adding two chapters a week right here, or you can snag an ebook from the links at the bottom of this chapter if you don't want to wait.

ASOoM is a novel for all ages about magic, growing up, and finding your place within those two very different realms.

And let's not forget that a sequel, A Wild Epidemic of Magic, is in the works and should be done in early 2012.

The story continues today with...

A Sudden Outbreak of Magic: Prologue

So here's the story…

(photo by Andy Castro)

Kelley and her twin brother Jeroan just moved to Dubuque, Iowa. Their parents uprooted them from their home in Chicago after learning that Jeroan had gotten mixed up with a gang. As the only black girl in her grade, Kelley is not pleased about the move.

One cold morning in November, after trying (unsuccessfully) to keep Jeroan out of trouble again, she gets "infected" by magic after reading aloud from a small leatherbound book she finds.

She also blows ...

Friday the Thirteenth! And maybe something new to celebrate it…

UnWrecked Press presents: something new, maybe?

Whoa. Just realized that tomorrow is the first Friday in over a year that I won't be running a short story here on my site. I ran 52 stories here in 2011, never missed a Friday for my  Fiction Friday series from UnWrecked Press.

I can't say I miss all the effort of putting up a blog post, finding cover art, designing the cover, writing a short description of the story, and then making the story into a 99-cent ebook. But it was a good learning...

Free Fiction Friday: "Finder"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Finder." You can read the entire story, below, for free.

And… that's it! The start of a new year, and the end to all my stories. I'm all caught up and ebooked! Check out all the ebooks at my Stories page.

Though something tells me that I'm not done writing about Bim and Hanky J, from the story below…

Finder

Wedged into the unforgiving passenger seat of a twelve-year-old Ford Escort, I took ...

Free Fiction Friday: "Finders, Keepers"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Finders, Keepers."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. But for now, you can read it right here for free!

Finders, Keepers

As far as Mark Rasmussen was concerned, the only really good things about living in Newport that summer were the buried glass balls on the beach...

Free Fiction Friday: "Comfort and Joy"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Comfort and Joy."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. But for now, you can read it right here for free!

This story was first published in The Raleigh News & Observer's Sunday Reader, December 2002.

Comfort and Joy

Two things, and two things only, kept Lew Zimmerman from ...

Free Fiction Friday: "Riverrun Alley"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Riverrun Alley."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. But for now, you can read it right here for free!

This story was first published at MarsDust, July 2003. Watch for cameos from creatures and people from some of my other stories and novels!

Riverrun Alley

In the...

Free Fiction Friday: "What the Land Takes"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "What the Land Takes."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. But for now, you can read it right here for free!

This is a story about loss and faith, and the lengths a person will go to save his land…

What the Land Takes

"I was three when the power takeoff assassinated my...

Free Fiction Friday: "Takedown"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Takedown."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. But for now, you can read it right here for free!

This is the second of my sports-related stories, both of which harken back to my teaching days in the midwest. Ah, the old days…!

Takedown

Far as I was concerned, the whole t...

December Novel Launch: Heart's Revenge

This month's Novel Launch from UnWrecked Press — which includes  a special month-long, low price on the ebook and trade paperback version — is for my paranormal mystery/romance Heart's Revenge.

Nothing beats the December cold like a trip to the North Carolina coast for some wreck-diving, ghost pirates, and a spark-flying romance.

For the entire month, you can buy the ebook version of Heart's Revenge for just $.99 from the following distributors:

AmazonBarnes & NobleDriveThruFantasySmashwords

You ...