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    Category: general fiction

    Silver Bottle, A Novel

    “Religion isn’t like cleaning a chicken,” I told him. ‘You can’t take the messy parts out.”

    October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 by joanspilman

    Nonna Gaylene Walks the Floor (A Harshbarger Mills Story) part 3

    I piled everything in a skillet and heated it until it was palatable, dumped everything in a big bowl, and marched out to his run.

    October 7, 2023October 8, 2023 by joanspilman

    This Textured Darkness, #77

    “Ranald needs his tonic,” replied Laveth. “He’s gone without for three days and his bones are needled with pain.”

    October 5, 2023September 23, 2023 by joanspilman

    This Textured Darkness, #76

    “The twisted stairs. Spiders are there. I haven’t swept them for two weeks.”
    ” Twisted stairs?” asked the Queen. “What are you talking about?”

    October 4, 2023September 23, 2023 by joanspilman

    Nonna Gaylene Walks the Floor (a Harshbarger Mills Story)

    Part 2 I started feeding Pace during the most beautiful Indian summer I’ve ever seen. Lucky feeds the hounds once a day, but by September, Pace was… Read more “Nonna Gaylene Walks the Floor (a Harshbarger Mills Story)”

    October 2, 2023October 2, 2023 by joanspilman

    This Textured Darkness, #73

    “How can I take another’s child as my own?” ask the Queen.
    “How can you not? This child, this Earth Child, must live.”

    October 1, 2023September 23, 2023 by joanspilman

    This Textured Darkness, #70

    “And where is the Shivelite girl?” the old nurse demanded. “To whom is she talking? I trust no one.”

    September 28, 2023September 23, 2023 by joanspilman

    Nonna Gaylene Walks the Floor (A Harshbarger Mills Story.)

    I haven’t been feeding Lucky’s hounds. I hate them. I was, and still am, feeding pace, the monster dog Lucky flew in from Texas on a plane.

    September 23, 2023October 12, 2023 by joanspilman

    This Textured Darkness, #65

    They’d dubbed her “The Peasant Queen”.

    September 23, 2023September 23, 2023 by joanspilman

    This Textured Darkness, #63

    Her father had left her in the road, a bundle at her feet.

    September 21, 2023August 27, 2023 by joanspilman

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