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Our Place: Monica and Brad Start School

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“. . . sensitive and informative . . .” — Foreword Clarion Reviews Press enter on the picture description or click on the cover image to visit Hyacinth Grey’s Books for Young Readers (hgb4yr.com).

Testimony of Outlaws

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Testimony of Outlaws

Haiku poetry. “Lights,” a new story about Christmas. Free for the month of April in celebration of National Poetry Month.

Wounded Bride

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First in a series of hard-boiled detective novels. Press enter on the picture description or click on the cover image to visit the Wounded Bride page to learn more and purchase.

About the Book

The city of Chicago is relentless. Murders and other violent crimes pile up: a woman lies in the hospital in a coma, a man is brutally attacked in his sleep, and a child suffers.

Detective Maria Mateo is new to the Chicago Police Department, but she’s not soft. In spite of her strength, every case that arises brings troubling memories of her past and fear that her deepest secret will be revealed and threaten everything she’s worked for.

When her captain discovers she’s having difficulty with her health, she faces the possibility of losing her badge for good. Mateo struggles to keep her personal baggage out of her work, but when a woman is almost smothered, the investigation leads Mateo to help someone she never thought she’d see again.

Read an interview with fictional Detective Maria Mateo.

Free Fiction

Woman in Gray Sweater Using MacBook Air
I write mostly on a PC but like this picture.

It’s all yours!
Please download, share in any format, and print. All that I ask is that you include a link to this website and don’t rewrite, change, sell, or repost my work (links and short excerpts of a few lines with links are nice.)

The Dark Tide – revised version available NOW for free!

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The Dark Tide, a short piece of fantasy fiction, has been published with Smashwords, as a blog post on this website, and also a podcast episode on Anchor.

The Dark Tide

Billy

Billy is a young man whose stories I love to tell.

Exposed: 2020 NaNoWriMo Romance Novel

Lightly revised version available for free on Smashwords (this book does not have a cover)

Time Gone By – story in progress

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Science fiction. Time travel. Four children and their grandmother trying to prevent a second civil war.

Time Gone By

The Christmas Room

This is contemporary fiction, and the story has two endings.

The Christmas Room – blog post with link to podcast episode

The Basket – story in progress

I started writing a story for Easter 2021, intending to tell it all in two parts, but the story’s turning out to be longer.

The Basket

Ruth – story in progress

Ruth started by accident. I needed some sample dialog for a post about writing, and ended up with a story.

Ruth

The Choice

The Choice was my first piece of free fiction. It was posted in six very short parts in April 2020, and those are still way back in the archives, but I link only the full story here.
The Choice – blog post
The Choice – podcast episode

In Life – story in progress

Sci-Fi Fantasy. A young woman who has lost everyone she loves. A new world for her to discover. Will she find friendship and love, or will she encounter only misery, horror, and brutality?

  • Update about In Life
  • Until it’s published for free on Smashwords, the first fifteen parts of In Life are still available to read on the In Life page.

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