I plan to release the 10th and final chapter for "You're Only Human". I never wanted to have it be a "love connection" between an AI and the human narrator but I moved the needle into that direction and found it shoved back the other way by the AI. So, the story will end on a not so happy ending in "virtual love-land" but more of a way to have the narrator not confide so much with a program but with others in the flesh.
There’s no contest this time but I’m still going to try and finish this before December 23rd. The continuation of “A Cracker Barrel Christmas” has Nicole and her family going to see her older brother in Texas. While there, she meets a homeless couple who sleep in a car across the street from a “Whataburger”. Nicole tries to find a way tgo help them and all of the homeless in the sub-freezing weather of a Texas suburb.
As I have ran through several edits to the story I realized how much was not fully explained and how I could extend the middle. I plan to have Tai relive each day, but, much like an episode of Star Trek TNG (Cause and Effect), slight changes are made each time she relives the day.
I also wanted to know if it is required to show more of what happens to during these loops.
Thank you to everyone who is currently reading “All I Need is a Miracle”. I have enjoyed working on this story and I know there are some heavy consequences that need to be dealt out. If you have any questions, please leave a comment.
There are three chapters remaining until the conclusion.
In case anyone is wondering, chapter titles are based on songs by Mike and the Mechanics
Another project I’ve been trying to write since 1992
Long Ago, King Tsarkon of Cartahena unleashed his evil hordes upon the peaceful land of Excalabria.
Though the people of Excalabria fought bravely, in the end they were overwhelmed. As his castle collapsed around him, King Erik V of Excalabria summoned Blade, his most trusted servant. Erik commanded Blade to escape with Erik's infant daughter and the Ring of Wisdom, an ancient family heirloom.
I am working on the first of two large chapters for “All I Need is a Miracle” and I noticed that only “Ty/Tai” has a picture in all of my postings, so the next chapter will probably use this picture.
From top left, clockwise:
Riley, Tai, Tony, Chris, Matt
Thank you to everyone who has read “Release Me” and have shared it. It is from a story idea I had in 1992 but never completed. I may not be able to post the next chapter (“Reason to Believe”) until possibly Friday due to work.
I’m trying to consider editing a long-deleted screenplay I wrote. (I accidentally wiped the wrong SD cards). I may have posted this before but I have seriously been placing thought in written the prose version.
I skipped a freebie week, so we’re once again doing a double up:
The e-books for: “Are You Happy” and “Desert Rose” will be free for this week from Amazon.
“Are You Happy” is kind of a depressing delve into the madness mind of Stephen Thomas and his “guardians’: the Elvin princess Ayle and a grim reaper-in-training who never makes it, “Skully”. The reader is asked to ponder if they’re a part of Stephen’s broken psyche or if they indeed exist.
I am setting the “the twins’ as free on Amazon for the first week in June.
“A Change Would Do You Good” and “the best damn thing” were written at about the same time and both take place in Alabama. “Change” is set on the shores of Orange Beach while Prattville hosts the plotline for “tbdt”. Both are bitter stories…but one ends on a happy note that has allowed me to try to think of a follow-up story.
Both will be available to free for Kindle on 6/2/2023 to 6/5/2023.
I apologize that I have not worked on these two as much as I should…it has been slow due to having to deal with the insurance company on why we’re still in a hotel.
“Cherry Moone: MooneShadows” will be free on Amazon for the week of May 22nd-26th. It is a fictional story but has a few real sitations and a lot of real and sometimes explicit dialogue.
Cherry Moone: MooneShadows
I made the decision to place the entire story on Amazon.
And I have learned that my title is in no way original and that page formatting issues have creeped in.
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