Each Saturday, we take turns writing about our process, experiences or works-in-progress as we set about writing our Great American Novels first novels. We’ve told you that we describe our genre, or sub-sub-genre, to be contemporary romantic suspense. For the purposes of this post, the emphasis is on romantic. Or, more accurately, scenes of physical…
Month: June 2016
Harvest Begins…
Wheat harvest 2016! So as you butter your bread, pile on burger fixins, swirl pasta on a fork. Remember us and send up a prayer for a safe and bountiful harvest.
Whip-poor-WILL!
I was driving home from town after dark last night and spooked a whip-poor-will off my gravel road. I breathed a small sigh of relief that it flew into the woods farther from the house. This guy likes to hang out around my house and garden and that is a problem. Not a particularly attractive…
My Hi-Tech Security Blanket
One day last week I left my phone at home – again. It was only the second time that I can remember having done it since I cut the (landline) cord about five years ago, but I panicked. The forgetting itself made me start to question my sanity and/or my good memory. Was this the…
Stay – Part 1/4
The following story is a work of *fanfiction first written and published online in 2008. It was inspired by the movie Dear Frankie, available for viewing or purchase on Amazon. Enjoy, comment, share. ~KRB Stay They left the pub to not so quiet whispers and knowing lecherous winks, which earned the clever winkers a “what…
The Tree
Gray swirling clouds, gusts of wind followed by an eerie stillness and a heaviness in the air that we can’t quite name, but the sensation sends us scrambling to bring in the potted plants, get the cars under cover and pray for the protection of tender crops. And so our Sunday afternoon began. We waited…
Just Because You Can…
…Doesn’t Mean You Should. I’ve heard, said and thought that more times than I can count, followed closely by, “do you ever look in the mirror before you go out?” This post is brought to you by the young woman I saw this past weekend exiting Mecca Starbucks with a male friend. She was seen…