Category: Fiction
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Fiction: A Drunken Night
“How dare you lecture your cousin! You’ve really put her in a pickle. It’s well-known you owe half the whores in town and have high tabs at the dram shops. You should confess instead of hiding behind your supposed infirmities.”
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Fiction: Maps
Thankful pouted, swaying a little while twirling a curl. “My cousin wants me gone by tomorrow, so may I stay in camp? I’d feel safer with military men than the common sort in town.” She blushed at William. “I didn’t mean Willy–Bill of course. My cousin is a gentleman.”
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Fiction: Taken By An Officer
“Land sakes, the soldiers I’ve seen so far are barely handsome at all,” Thankful whispered.
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Fiction: Pretend We’re Cousins
William agrees to take Thankful to Fort Grant “Call me Bill at the post,” William coached. “Lieutenant Bourke is the only one to hold to my childhood name, and it gives too much a laugh to the others.” “Maybe it’s not your name they’re laughing at,” Thankful said, poking his side with her thin, gloved…
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Fiction: Where Are The Gallant Men?
“It wouldn’t be an accident if I shot you, Thankful,” William joked.
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Novel Inspiration: Free Love
Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away. Hosea 6:4 My daughter tells me a hook up is expected after three dates. A few years ago my son told me it was after three weeks and before that I’d heard three months. Free love is more like free mating…
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FICTION: Holiday Domestic Disputes
Fred Crenshaw leaves town to have his twin pick up the pieces of a broken holiday. Buck slogged through the fairy-lit town of Englewood as carolers sang. Up the hill to Chestnut Street he debated sleeping either in the carriage house or his warm bed. A month of winter break promised to be damned uncomfortable…
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QUOTE: We all wonder at the clouds, their changing shapes and fleeting existence, but never once has man been able to rid the sky of them. We can look and worry about what they mean, but only God can push them away.
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Novel Inspiration (3): The Scapegoat
INSPIRATION: Every addict needs a scapegoat. Captain Simon McCullough’s motto: Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may die. This gets John Weldon’s goat. How unfair it is that Simon coasts through life suffering nary a scratch while drinking, womanizing and joking all the way? Weldon fails to note the fatalism in Simon’s motto.…
Author Adrienne Morris 