From the front seat, I grabbed a grocery sack containing a baggie of Aunt Rosie’s homemade confections and tucked the pipe wrench under my arm.

Vicki Batman

Walking into this smoky structure was like going into a dark cave: the home of the beast, the lair of the dragon.

Sam Bradley w/a McKenna Sinclair

“Stay home and eat some good Italian food for a change,” Maria said, a hint of steel in her voice.

Joanne Guidoccio

That on top of three weeks of living with her father’s massive ego was more than enough to remind her why she left home the day after her sixteenth birthday.

Kathryn Jane

She glanced around the office space, the stacks of books, the framed certificates and degrees, and the pictures of his family. She couldn’t help but stare at the people she’d never met, wondering what they were like.

S.A.Taylor
Shutter (work in progress)

As much as she resented the psychologist in Atlanta suggesting she go home for two weeks, this may be for the best. She wasn’t as fine as she kept telling people. Or herself.

Marsha West

Rafe picked up the iron loop that held the keys to crypts in the old cemetery on Capel land. Juliet was tied to her people as surely as he was bound to her.

Sharon Wray
Every Deep Desire