Stories Worth Your Time
Bird on a Wire
Jonah Crowe is a restless musician with a talent for leaving. Ren Vale is a woman who has loved him long enough to know that love alone can’t keep someone from running.
When their car breaks down outside Junebug, Oklahoma, they’re forced to stay in a town where the past has a way of catching up. In dimly lit bars, rain-soaked streets, and the quiet of Room 17, old wounds resurface, long-buried truths emerge, and a raven on a wire seems to watch every choice they make.
As Junebug works its strange magic, Jonah and Ren must decide if they can forgive what they cannot change, and whether second chances are enough when the road ahead leads in different directions.Want to be an Alpha Reader Critiquer for a Work in Progress?
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Sweet Molly Sue
A Friday the 13th Feary Tales from Junebug, Oklahoma, Where Hell Comes Sweeping Down the Plains
Of Chocolate and Venom
Molly Sue's life takes a deadly turn when she receives a pre-Valentine's Day box of chocolate on Friday the 13th from her estranged lover, Liam--a Final Goodbye with an eight-legged fatal surprise hidden among the sweet chocolates.
A death investigator for the Junebug County Sheriff's department, Molly Sue is swept into a dangerous investigation of a secretive cult run by The Collector.
As the threads tighten around her, Molly Sue realizes that she is a target of The Web and sets out to unravel the mystery before she becomes the next victim of the deadly goassmer spinning around her.
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Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.--Morticia Addams
Popinjay
Summer 2027
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