Sometimes I write songs...especially if I'm feeling sad about people I will never see again.
Every Flower Dies
Last night
I saw the moonlight sparkle in your eyes
And my heart finally came to realize
I’ve always known the trut...
2022-02-26 23:58:09 +0000 UTC
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DRAGON’S FANG
Shauna J. Rousseau
Cover Typography by Joyce Melton
Cover Image Source: Photo 6936442 / Girl © Marek Paju | Dreamstime.com
Author's Note: I will be on trave...
2022-02-16 03:27:35 +0000 UTC
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This is sad, so warning.
Bucket Full of Kittens
It was obvious after the Santa Claus incident that I was a skeptic. Well, we lived in Missouri, a state that prides itself on the skepticism of its inhabitants.
Back to the kittens. David had told me that cats alwa...
2022-02-05 22:42:36 +0000 UTC
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DRAGON’S FANG
Shauna J. Rousseau
Cover Typography by Joyce Melton
Cover Image Source: Photo 6936442 / Girl © Marek Paju | Dreamstime.com
*****
CHAPTER THREE
I stand in fro...
2022-02-05 04:14:30 +0000 UTC
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Coming soon!
2022-01-29 01:18:31 +0000 UTC
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Leading up to the Christmas just past, my Missouri cousins were astonished that I had never heard of Santa Claus. He's the one that brings you toys at Christmas, they told me.
Momma and Daddy buy me toys, I told them.
Not for Christmas, they said. Your folks get you clothes and shoes ...
2022-01-27 15:02:41 +0000 UTC
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DRAGON’S FANG
Shauna J. Rousseau
Cover Typography by Joyce Melton
Cover Image Source: Photo 6936442 / Girl © Marek Paju | Dreamstime.com
Author's Note: I have not finished the book, so the chapter...
2022-01-26 04:04:24 +0000 UTC
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Momma's New Name
In early spring of that following year, or maybe it was the year before, we went to visit my mother's Aunt Lizzie down near Mountain Home, Arkansas. We'd been to see her before and I vaguely remembered the place.
Tucked off the main road on a crooked ...
2022-01-22 02:11:54 +0000 UTC
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A collection of my stories from BigCloset, out soon from DopplerPress, including Bobbie Majestic, Twig, and Sky Blue. Wth a cover by Melanie Ezell. :)
2022-01-21 07:46:29 +0000 UTC
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DRAGON’S FANG
Shauna J. Rousseau
Cover Typography by Joyce Melton
Cover Image Source: Photo 6936442 / Girl © Marek Paju | Dreamstime.com
Author's Note: I have not finished the book, so the chapter...
2022-01-19 02:20:19 +0000 UTC
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Uncle Hank and the Cold Potato Part ii
Daddy's brother, Uncle Virgil, dropped in on the New Years party that had turned into an Arkansawyer wake for Hank Williams. Naturally, the story had to be retold about the time he had shown up at Ma Dale's and eaten two whole fried ch...
2022-01-17 23:52:02 +0000 UTC
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Love Less is going to be available from DopplerPress, just as soon as I get the bonus chapter done!
2022-01-15 21:14:17 +0000 UTC
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I never did get the seat belt buckled. In 1964, not every vehicle even had them and especially not pick-up trucks. I hung onto the belt though, while going in and out of consciousness— it kept me from sliding off the seat. We drove for a time, I have no idea how long, and he kept talking. The w...
2022-01-14 22:14:12 +0000 UTC
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Uncle Hank and the Cold Potato
Mom taught me my letters and how to sound-spell and I would puzzle out some of the shorter words, getting good enough that with my supply of imagination, a lot of people thought I could read. By the middle of the following summer, before my fi...
2022-01-13 12:24:08 +0000 UTC
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I didn’t say much to Donna, just handed Fooler’s leash to her and kept running but by the time I got to the corner, I was done. One problem I had was the jiggling of my— my breasts. Even inside three layers of shirt they rubbed against the fabric with the impact of each step. It made it unc...
2022-01-12 08:56:14 +0000 UTC
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Coming out in a few days to a week - Art by Melanie E - Letters by Joyce
2022-01-11 21:44:42 +0000 UTC
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This will probably be out in a few weeks but here's a preview of the cover. Do you want to read the book? :D
2022-01-10 17:05:46 +0000 UTC
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I’m not sure how long we stayed with Ma and Pa that time, not more than a few weeks I’m sure. We moved into a house in town that wasn’t much more than a shed for a short time and then into a place I called The Little Red House. It had asphalt siding made to look like red bricks and it sat o...
2022-01-09 08:48:50 +0000 UTC
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We found a room at the first motel, and Megan paid for it with a credit card, forty dollars plus tax and a city fee. I tried not to wince. I didn’t have that much money on me, and I didn’t have a credit card.
“Third cabin, second door,” said the clerk with no curiosity at all. We ma...
2022-01-08 08:47:05 +0000 UTC
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Art by Melanie Ezell - this book will be coming out from DopplerPress very soon. :)
2022-01-06 15:16:07 +0000 UTC
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Ham Biscuit on a Green Glass Plate
We moved back to Senath, Missouri, midway down the western edge of the Bootheel sometime in 1952. Both sets of grandparents lived there and aunts, uncles and cousins; too many to shake a stick at, as the saying goes.
My mom's parents...
2022-01-05 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Probably out later this week...
2022-01-05 04:55:48 +0000 UTC
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I put both hands up to cover the spill over. It wasn’t a reflex I had developed over time, I had to invent it right then and there. I clamped my teeth shut on my squeal, too.
No one laughed. Mr. Delgado shed his coat and stepped close to wrap it around me while Mr. Harrelson, the AD, put ...
2022-01-02 09:16:55 +0000 UTC
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The Left-Handed Cantaloupe
by Joyce Melton
Momma took an immediate job in one of the agricultural sheds since Aunt Opal would stay at home to take care of me and John. Daddy soon joined Momma, sorting fruit and vegetables for shipment. I seem to remem...
2022-01-01 18:49:35 +0000 UTC
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DRAGON'S MARK
Shauna J. Rousseau
Edited by Angela Rasch
*****
CHAPTER NINE
I walk into the War Room and try not to react to the stunned looks. Of course, no one is expecting me to be walkin...
2021-12-31 20:21:47 +0000 UTC
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Maryanne Peters newest book of neat little tales and happy endings -- mostly. Coming soon.
2021-12-31 01:49:21 +0000 UTC
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Painting the Chinaberry Trees
Near the end of the three weeks, Aunt Grace got a phone call from Aunt Opal, the oldest of the sisters. Aunt Opal lived in Brawley, California a town almost as much like Casa Grande as Cleveland is like Chicago, which is to say, quite a lot and...
2021-12-28 10:29:47 +0000 UTC
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WARNING: Triggers. Contains violence.
I don’t remember exactly when it started but the beginning of the end happened behind a restaurant in Esau, West Virginia sometime in the fall of 1964. A cold rain fell from a dark sky and I could hear Marty Robbins singing about ...
2021-12-27 19:20:39 +0000 UTC
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Allen discovers his assassinated father was the accountant for a mysterious criminal syndicate just before he is horribly wounded himself and left for dead. Can his resurrection as Melody Marston be used to defeat the leader of the organization, the Pantocrator, by his rebellious cohorts, El Juez...
2021-12-25 10:53:19 +0000 UTC
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Doodlebug Wages
Casa Grande is a small city south of Phoenix, Arizona. Back in 1951 it was a place of cotton farms and cattle ranches.
Aunt Grace was Momma’s second oldest sister, a plump cheerful woman with black hair and a house full of kids all older than me. Unc...
2021-12-24 15:35:32 +0000 UTC
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