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Every Flower Dies

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...

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Dragon's Fang -4- by Shauna Rousseau

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...

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BRCMD #13 - Bucket Full of Kittens

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...

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Dragon's Fang -3- by Shauna Rousseau

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...

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Easy as Falling Off a Bike -10- by Angharad - Cover Preview

Coming soon!

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BRCMD #12 - The Santa Claus Agnostic

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 ...

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Dragon's Fang -2- by Shauna Rousseau

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...

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BRCMD -11- Momma's New Name

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 ...

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Cover Art Preview - Said and Done

A collection of my stories from BigCloset, out soon from DopplerPress, including Bobbie Majestic, Twig, and Sky Blue. Wth a cover by Melanie Ezell. :)

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Dragon's Fang -1- by Shauna Rousseau

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...

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BRCMD -10- Uncle Hank and the Cold Potato - Part II

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...

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Cover Preview - Love Less from DopplerPress

Love Less is going to be available from DopplerPress, just as soon as I get the bonus chapter done!

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Cold Rain Gotta Fall -2- Pick-up

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...

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BRCMD -9- Uncle Hank and the Cold Potato - Part I

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...

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Sixteen the Hard Way -4- Walk

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...

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Cover Preview - Aunt T's by Angela Rasch

Coming out in a few days to a week - Art by Melanie E - Letters by Joyce

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Cover Preview - Brainjacked! by Melanie Brown

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

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BRCMD -8- Little Golden Memories

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...

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Pete's Vagina -9- Stop the Clock

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...

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Cover Art - My New Assignment by Melanie Brown

Art by Melanie Ezell - this book will be coming out from DopplerPress very soon. :)

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BRCMD #7 - Ham Biscuit on a Green Glass Plate

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...

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Cover Candidate - Her by Angela Rasch

Probably out later this week...

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Special FX -020- Dah-dah-DAH!

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 ...

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BRCMD -6- The Left-Handed Cantaloupe

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...

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Dragon's Mark -9- by Shauna Rousseau

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...

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Romance and Other Faraway Places - Cover Candidate

Maryanne Peters newest book of neat little tales and happy endings -- mostly. Coming soon.

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BRCMD -5- Painting the Chinaberry Trees

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...

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Cold Rain Gotta Fall

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 ...

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The Chancellor's Daughter - a story I probably won't write

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...

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BRCMD -4- Doodlebug Wages

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...

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