Bottomland by Georgiana Nelsen

A young lawyer, an estate, and a complicated farm. There will be ...ghosts.
A young lawyer, an estate, and a complicated farm. There will be ...ghosts.
“Write!” she heard the word deep in her heart and soul. She had been hearing this so frequently over the last several flood cycles. She was lost, wandering deep through her thoughts. The desert air was beginning to shimmer over…...
We meet Leya and Stevie, and Stevie's family - on the day of a funeral.
“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?” Virginia Woolf “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” William Shakespeare I twirled the gold band around my finger, its gleam…...
For me, it all seemed to happen within the span of a single week, as though the universe had preordained its cadence. He was supposed to go into surgery on a Wednesday, linger in the ICU until Friday, start physical…...
After two years of calm, Charlie thought his battles with the elemental realm was behind him. But as a murder of crows shadows his walk home and the ancient Talemseen book begins to glow, the familiar pull of danger returns. Secrets buried on an island in Loch Lomond resurface, and a new storm is brewing. Charlie must act fast to protect both worlds — but is he ready to face what’s coming?
Without a Heartmind, Joelly is worthless, no more than an asset to be bought, sold, or used. Tomorrow, she'll have one or be gone somehow.
“Urggh, mud” Diana Goddard exclaimed, as she too hastily jumped out of the car and landed with both polished shoes in a couple of inches of ooze. “Gonna have to get used to that, milady, if you’re going to…...
Prologue “So.” You say this to me slowly, your eyes ever more narrow. “This protagonist is just you.” Whatever gave it away? “An author (named Sarah Ramey) and musician (stage name Wolf Larsen), who lives with multiple serious yet…...
A journeyman actor is trying, against what he sees as nearly insurmountable odds, to find his way in the business, and in the world.
Prologue ~ 1500s England Wind wound its way through the locked back gate at Austin Friars, London home of Lord Thomas Cromwell. There was little pink in the pre-dawn sky as fifteen hungry Londoners assembled and would be among the…...
Memoir scene one: It is New Year's Eve 1994. Our 11 year old protagonist arrives at a housewarming party at the newly built, just unveiled New Age commune where she will now live with 7 adults and 3 other kids in the suburbs of Boston. There will be hippies. There will be dancing. There will be Patchouli.