Snippets of Story: Summer 2025

A glimpse at what I've been working on

Follow the Lonesome Trail: A Wild West Anthology releases September 10th and is currently available for pre-order. In the meantime, read a few snippets of my story below, along with some excerpts from my next novel manuscript.

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“The Princess of Flat Rock”

{short story, Western}

“What happens if they catch us?” said Dominic, who always asked this question, although he already knew the answer.

“We would be sent to the dungeons,” said Margot, thinking of the great gloomy, gray stone front of the Orphans’ Home they had passed on their walks in New York, where she knew they would have to go for a while if Mother couldn’t earn enough to support them all; “and wear prison garb and be fed on oatmeal and bread-and-milk until our friends on the outside could arrange a rescue.”

“That’s not going to happen to us,” said Theodore stoutly.

“Of course it isn’t,” said Margot. “We have a brave and resourceful mother, and friends in secret everywhere we go. Our enemies have never caught us yet.”