Sifting through the dirt to get to the gold
SUMMARY "A Baker's Dozen: 13 Tales of Murder and More" is a compilation of short stories created over 30 years, written by a former journalist and including contributions by her mother, a professional proofreader. From murder in the mountains of Tennessee to the adventures of an all-woman air conditioning repair crew in Northern Virginia, a... Continue Reading →
"Your emotions are powerful weapons, and continuing to think that their effects are instant and minimal will only do you a disservice." Between the frown lines on my forehead, the laugh lines around my mouth and the smattering of silver hairs on my temples, one would be correct in concluding that I am or I have... Continue Reading →
SUMMARY Painting Pictures features eight stories of discovery, betrayal, and passion. The stories depict the emotional turmoil that results from decisions: a little girl who migrates to Canada on a hot August day is flabbergasted to discover there's no snow; a graphic designer leaves her husband each morning to meet her lover; an inconsolable heartbreak... Continue Reading →
Misdirected is a story of a recent college graduate named Madison Reynolds who lives in Iron Bay with her father William and Aunt Sara. An interesting characteristic of Iron Bay is that in a sense everyone is related and your dirty laundry tends to lay wrinkled in everyone's hamper. At this time Madison is dealing... Continue Reading →
"Maggie could've enjoyed the same starry-eyed view of the world, but instead she traded in her innocence for a dose of cruel reality. She accepted nothing at face value but fought to see what was behind the curtain. They were so different. Tara fantasized about having a different mom- maybe a school teacher or a nurse. Maybe... Continue Reading →
SUMMARY Dixon's European sojourn goes awry when she's arrested for corporate espionage. She's just an innocent Australian teacher working abroad. Or is she? For Dixon, it's a matter of wrong place, wrong time. The investigating officers are convinced she's stolen the navigation and guidance technology from the plane manufacturer Flussair, and that she's behind the... Continue Reading →
"Torvegade was not only empty and dirty, but also disemboweled. A scalpel of violence had torn and revealed its innards, and a hand armed with hatred had armed had removed its guts, it's organs, then it had left it in agony. Christianashavn would neither resurrect nor heal from this wound. Not only was there a... Continue Reading →
"For a while Fozzy rolled the word 'home' around his tongue tasting its texture and meaning for the first time, exploring its pros and cons and ultimately spitting it out in disgust. It struck him, like lightning strikes its target, how superficial it all was.The resolve was made to go back and reclaim what was... Continue Reading →
"The great painters and composers didn't simply decide what beauty was. They discovered in their lives and devoted themselves to capturing it." This is a 21st century retelling of a popular 1980's family comedy, but for the sake of subtleties let's call this intergalactic religious odyssey Ransom & Corwin's Excellent Meta-Physical Adventure. Together they travel... Continue Reading →
"I thought of the divisions, within and through my city, small ones, cracks in pavements and in people's minds, that were familiar, nondescript, repeated as often as the scene in front of me was repeated, glowing and then gone. I thought of bigger divisions, moral and political, how Eden Carmichael had moved across them, and... Continue Reading →
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