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Midnight in Pungo
A flash fiction story
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Fit for Freedom (Prologue)
December 1790 Fort Lernoult, Province of Upper Canada Thomas Sherwood shrugged on his overcoat before making the short walk from his sleeping quarters…
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Beneath the Hill (part 1)
Shadows crept over the valley, darkening the motley canvas of deep greens and flaming reds that forested the area around the little town. It was getting…
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Camping Out
I wrote this in response to the prompt for the July Flash Fiction Contest for Silence and Starsong. To be fair to these characters, however, I decided…
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Beneath the Hill (part 2)
Last time, Abishai Godfrey happened upon the small town of Jackson Hollow.
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Sheriff Moultrie and the Sulfur Springs Bandits
Sheriff C.R. Moultrie had seen more than a few bank robberies in his time, but never one quite like what he saw that afternoon at the First Bank of…
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Triumph of the Skies
A flash fiction story
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Beneath the Hill (part 3)
In the previous installment, Abishai’s unease about Jackson Hollow began to grow, as he parried questions from the local lawman and fought off an…
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Beneath the Hill (part 4)
In the third part of the story, our hero began to uncover a dark secret that lurks beneath the surface in Jackson Hollow.
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The Magical Magistrate
I suppose you could pigeonhole this story as an “urban fantasy,” but I actually think the niche is somewhat smaller than that.
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Allegiance Owed
In Soviet Russia, the Party expects conformity and the state demands obedience, but one man must decide where his true allegiance lies--no matter what…
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