Tag: the disposable
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Simone and Dean: A Complex Teen Romance Unfolds
Simone raked a pile of horse manure into the scooper, then looked at her watch. Five-forty-five. Her shoulders slumped as she stared at the scooper, not wanting this morning to end. From the last stall, she heard the soft scraping as Dean spot cleaned it and she wished she could just stay in the barn…
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The Struggle for Survival: Andre’s Journey Through Poverty
Author’s note: This was the original opening, but my editor, Caprice Hokstad, recommended a rewrite. The published chapter one is much stronger, but this was a good chapter (just not the best) and thought I’d share it with you. Chapter 1 Eighteen-year-old Andre Collinger ripped open the thick plastic bag and jerked it open, ignoring…
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Rax quits the team
OUTTAKES I realized as I developed characters, I literally had hundreds of scenes written just to get to know them. These scenes would never be used in any published work, but it seems wasteful just to have them saved in a file unread, except by me. So, I plan to publish them here on my…