I'd lost her - had her taken from me - the love of my life. I had two daughters to bring up - how was I going to do that? But Rachel's mother stepped in...
Violent storms are common in the Midwest. The one described here actually happened outside a little town I was staying in almost 20 years ago. It sounded like a train, the tornado axiom, if you will, but the straight-line winds cleared a windrow to stumps and killed several cattle (and I'm sure a lot of other critters). Friday I was in the shower, during a storm, when my muse spoke to me, and yes, when I looked out back, she was sitting on our boat.
A Time Scope Story (3) Jeb Connors and his ladies are now in the middle of an intergalactic drama. The Altairian spacecraft's Captain invoked Directive 1495. Now Jeb and his ladies, four everyday citizens of the US, have been declared the Altairian's Facilitators. They must chair a meeting to negotiate an agreement between Earth's governments and the Empire, which the Altairians represent. Without an agreement, Earth's people will be bombarded back to their caveman days.
Natalie attends a Halloween party with Jason, her daughter's boyfriend. Jason is a very hands-on kind of guy. If not for rule eleven, this would have been my entry for the Halloween story contest. Consider this a non-canon fork from The Loyalty Gene. Time-wise, it's set between chapters eight and nine. / (Reviews)
When financial hardship means that Julie has to share a bedroom with her bigger sister Sharon it comes with an unexpected benefit. One that only gets better and better.
Things get complicated when families implode, but Amelia has always known she can count on Coach Tayvon, her father’s best friend. Now, with his marriage kaput, Tayvon finds that he is relying on the girl he’d always called his ‘porcelain-skinned niece’ to be a rock for him as well.