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A journeyman actor is trying, against what he sees as nearly insurmountable odds, to find his way in the business, and in the world.
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.
A mother takes over the building of the family fires
The heir of a powerful (modern day) empire carries out his first official act on behalf of the empire. It is all ceremony and formality and tradition...and going entirely wrong.
Iris is disillusioned with her life choices and marriage. Stressed out by an upcoming relocation to Germany, she fears losing herself. Holding on to her job she denies what's really happening in her life. She is unable to tell her husband that she cannot give up her life in her home country. A new team member is about to join her team who will disrupt her life.
The Swinging Seventies come to small town Fallbrook, NY, and Lynda Moore finds it the topic of conversation with husband Barry one evening over dinner.
The author's own life in Canada is affected more than she realizes by the violence of October 7, 2023.
Judith returns to Block Island to help her family run the inn for a summer after her mother is injured. Her brother John takes a job as a lifguard; her sister Caroline looks for buried treasure.
Blake is surprised when she walks into her cafe used book store, Readalatté, as her best friend and business partner, Violet, has decorated the shop with balloons and along with the two other staff sing happy birthday to her when she walks in with her Belgian Melinois. It’s her 30th birthday, but she doesn’t like to broadcast it. Then Violet met someone new on a dating site and has no pictures to show Blake of him. Blake is worried about her friend and this new mystery man.
Set approximately 25 years after multiple crises that led to the breakdown of society, this story centers on Cora, a librarian in a small town that is supported by its excellent library. Unfortunately, she discovers that books have gone missing. Were they stolen? How will this affect the library, the town that relies on it, and Cora?
This is a story about Sammy and Grammy, a granddaughter and grandmother combo. It's served with lots of twists and turns. Not to mention a ghost or two. Don't be afraid; they are, for the most part, benign. Perhaps, even beneficial. Sit back, relax, and enjoy!
A tarot reading at a school board meeting? Introducing Zera Smith.
Elena Jones is contented with her childless life until three consecutive dreams about disappearing young babies evoke the maternal emotions she had worked so hard to suppress.
What she’d done would go away== She bit her lip. No. It wouldn’t. She couldn’t fix this. No matter how much she wished to. Maybe if she were good here— She glanced at Mamaw’s cold indifference. Fat lot it would do. She wouldn’t thaw. But somehow, someway, Tralis had to get through. Survival depended on it.
“What happened, last night, I only went to the Christmas party, how could I be on the beach?  Who did this?  Where am I?” confused, she walked towards the market,