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Fiction
I enjoy writing fiction, and I have a couple short pieces available here, or in anthologies.
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Dirty Hands [Tall Pines Underground #3]
Check It OutChapter three, edited and all spiffy. If you want to start reading from the beginning, check out Chapter 1: Quarantine. I’m enjoying going back through…
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The Posture of a Lady [Uskweirs #7]
Check It Out…in which Amelia goes to church. Since I am emulating the English pastoral romance, it was only inevitable that I’d need to include a complete…
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First Day on the Job [Tall Pines Underground #2]
Check It OutChapter One left Susan wary about something being wrong inside the Tall Pines Security Refuge that she’d brought her family to so they could weather…
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The Mulveys Give Dinner [Uskweirs #6]
Check It OutIt’s time for dinner at the Mulvey’s house in Bath. Amelia and the other young people have returned from their refreshing walk up Solsbury Hill…
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1. Quarantine [Tall Pines Underground #1]
Check It OutTall Pines Underground is a novel long in development that I am finally giving a final edit, making it look all pretty, and kicking it…
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Strangers on a Hill [Uskweirs #5]
Check It OutOne of my favorite tropes from English pastoral novels is the country walk, when guests at a house pass an afternoon by wandering around the…
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Correspondence, Concoctions, and Coaching [Uskweirs #4]
Check It OutI wrote the first chapter of this as a sort of creative challenge, but the scene that made me want to keep going and turn…
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Girl Talk [Uskweirs #3]
Check It OutThis one’s kind of taking off and taking over my brain, so if you’re disinterested in Regency romance trans fiction, uh… sorry? Catch this from…
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The Impossible [Uskweirs #2]
Check It OutYou know how when you write something out to “get it out of your head” so you can “stop thinking about it” and instead your…
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A Fateful House Party [Uskweirs #1]
Check It OutThis bit of writing has been rattling around in my head for months, now, and last weekend I sat down to actually get it down in words so I could stop thinking about it—or at least, that was the hope. Yes, it’s the first chapter of a theoretical novel. No, I have no idea if I’d actually sit down and write it all out. Yes, I have extensive notes.