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The Darkest Eyes - Serialization
Ruckles and Rambles

Jan 15
5 min

Out of Place, Out of Time

Polly pulled onto a long drive leading to a large white frame house, which bore its century-plus existence with stately grace. A porch...

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Mick Brady

Nov 18, 2020
5 min

Dancing Moonlight

Will descended the stairs of the small plane and found herself under a lavish sunset. The Upper Peninsula airport that marked the end of...

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Mick Brady

Aug 22, 2020
5 min

In the Shadows

A dark crystal tower dominated the landscape. It sprang from a fracture in the earth in the center of the city, blooming from the soup of...

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Mick Brady

Aug 15, 2020
5 min

A Little Tenderness

The clouds looked like huge puffs of popcorn. Will pressed her forehead to the cool window of the jet and peered at the earth below...

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Mick Brady

Aug 3, 2020
5 min

Broken

She led the group through aqua water, past brilliant coral formations, through schools of orange and yellow-spotted fish, past...

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Mick Brady

Jul 26, 2020
5 min

Bruised and Battered

Will headed south. She thought she might go as far as Antarctica -- all the way to the Pole, maybe. Perhaps the little shits would turn...

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Mick Brady

Mar 17, 2020
4 min

Visitor in the Deep

Louis Armstrong's trumpet painted the walls of the little craft with soaring blue notes. He climbed, she fell. The contrast pleased her....

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