“Why would she believe that was my heart?” Rhys, the steward’s girl asked as she watched him carve the purple organ from the deer’s carcass. He put the thing into the black lacquered box beside him.

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You guys, remember when I wrote that serial? Oh yeah! I've fallen completely behind which I apologize for. Whoopsie daisy. I am keeping it up because I need the writing practice. My whole goal was to plot out and finish something But I had other stuff due, like a 15 page legal brief for a class which was a monster of a thing even though it was ( Read more... )

Note to new and not so new readers!: This is one part of a serial that I'm writing for kicks. It follows one Declan Cleat, gentleman of leisure and above modest means who's checked into a Hotel for slightly shady reasons. He's also just discovered that several other men look exactly like him ( Read more... )

When last we left our unnamed protagonist, he'd just been hailed by a young woman who refered to him as Henry Turpington!
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Sometimes, I admit, I feel really stressed out. My neck starts to cramp, and I can feel a knot start to grow right below my right shoulder blade. I know where mine is because I used to give and get massages. I am very good at massage. But not in a creepy way. I just have the ability to feel where people are hiding away all their tension, and I’m ( Read more... )

Erin pushed herself back in the driver’s seat, and flicked the turn signal, easing onto the controlled chaos that was the Dallas metro freeway ( Read more... )

Although technically not a 'local to me' event, I want to talk about Barbara Bush's Foundation for Family Literacy, which is celebrating it's 20th anniversary. I feel like I can because I lived in Midland, TX (home of the Bush family) from kindergarten to 3rd grade, I think she is advancing an important cause (family literacy), I have a fondness ( Read more... )

It was another boring Saturday when we all piled into the minivan. Luke and I had to carry out the babies, Becky and Debbie. They had only been on earth for six months and all ready they sounded like two of Barbie's best friends. Today was the day I dreaded every year. It was family photo day ( Read more... )