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Hey everybody

I've finished the story that was whirling around my head, I've changed the title to I'm Ready

Putting this here to force me to finish a story that's been whirling around in my head for a couple of weeks but I've not had chance to put it down on "paper".
I'll try to sort it in the library tomorrow.
Vicki it's called, about a teen siren, although we appear to have lost that tag.
I'm about 1/3 way through a new Jessica story.

Hey everybody

I've just posted a new Jessica Brown story.
I'm really getting to grips with Jessica's character, and this story fills out her back story a little.

I have so much work in my mental queue. I hope to start work on the finishing chapters of Pictures of Lucy soon, then I have another Poppy & Belle story that is potentially quite long, then I think I'll set to work on a full length Jessica Brown story.
But... I'm a Gemini, and I have a butterfly brain, so who knows what I'll do next... definitely not me, that's for sure...

I'm enjoying writing the Jessica character, so I've come up with another one.
This story appeared while I was listening to an audio book, one of Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr stories, The Burglar in the Library.
The book's setting in an English style hotel prompted the location for my new story, but the actual origin of story comes from a line in the book, where someone asks if Sherry Trifle is a person or a dessert, and then they muse about a typical fresh faced English girl.

So Sherry Trifle is the main character (apart from Jessica) and over the weekend I wove a story around her.

As always, please drop me a message with your thoughts on the story.

OK, time to apologise to all the Pictures of Lucy fans.

I've not touched this story for a couple of years, and in the meantime I've written and published about a dozen new stories, and self published a couple of mainstream novels on Amazon.

Lucy and Gabbie's story ran away from me, moving a long, long way from its original storyline into a dark area of abuse and magic.
I also got a lot of shit from some readers who felt I'd done Steve a disservice, which put me off the story a little.

Anyway, my decks are clear for a while, so I'm picking up Pictures of Lucy.
I need to read it all first, to get the story back into context in my head, then I'll write the final 5 or 6 chapters.

In the meantime, I've added a proper cover to the story, ChatGPT's idea of what Lucy and Gabbie look like.

Regards
Alan