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All about my writing – Novels, Journals, Short Stories, and other scribblings

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Ghost Town, my newest short story, is published!

My newest publication, ‘Ghost Town’ is an adventure story, published in the newest Writing Journey Anthology called JOURNEY TO ADVENTURE – A Writing Journey Anthology.

The story collection in this anthology is all about adventure, quests, and thrilling expeditions offering a great variaty of genres and diverse tales.

‘Ghost Town’ features two characters from a middle grade series, ‘Panther’s Head’, that I am working on. In this story, two girls enjoy a summer camp in the Colorado Mountains.One afternoon, the campers visit a ghost town, and the two girls stumble over a secret.

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My newest project – “The Wordslingers” Magazine

In Spring 2023 one of my colleagues, Matthew, challenged me to write a flash fiction piece.
I had never written flash fiction before. I’m a novel writer. Even the short stories I write challenge me to stay within the usual 3,000-word limit. Now, flash fiction is even more limited, to 500 to 1500 words. I took the challenge just to prove to myself that I could do it.

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New! My fourth Short Story Published!

I am happy to announce, that my fourth short story is published. The Family Tree is a story for the Hidden Identity Anthology and now published in a brand new book. 40 stories and poems written during the challenging year of 2020 by authors belonging to the Writing Journey are compiled in “Masks, Facades, and Reveals.”
And this time I am not only an author, but I also contributed two illustrations.

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2020 – The Craziest of Years

I guess I don’t need to remind you what we went through this year, from a global pandemic, protests against systemic racism and police brutality, wild fires, earthquakes, elections and allegations of voter fraud,… and so on.

View from Chief Mountain, CO

No, I won’t get into that. I want to tell you about the unexpected.
Sometimes the unexpected hits you so suddenly that you are so stunned that you can’t talk about it for quite some time. It can even make you think you dreamed it altogether.
This is the story about the unexpected discovery we made this summer.

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The Night Everything Changed

I heard the slapping of his sandals first, then Josiah yelled, “Esther!”
It was dark outside, the deep of night. He must know our kids were sound asleep. Why on earth would he make such a ruckus? I wondered.
“Shhh, you are waking the kids,” I jumped up, holding out my hands towards Josiah as soon as he broke through the door.
“Esther, I saw the LORD.” He gasped and bend over, breathing hard.
“What Lord?” Did he drink again with his friends?

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Featured in the Library

Our Anthology in the Nichols ibrary

Over the last three years I have participated in three Writing Journey Anthologies. All three books were on display at the Nichols Library in Naperville, IL.
So, if you want to read my short stories and the stories of my fellow Journey Writing Group authors, this is your chance – they are all available at our local library.