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March First: The Lizardin’ of Alabama
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March First: The Lizardin’ of Alabama
The first warm day of spring in Alabama never announces itself politely. It does not slip in through the back door or whisper gentle promises about sunshine and daffodils. No sir. It crashes in lik…
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March First: The Lizardin’ of Alabama The first warm day of spring in Alabama never announces itself politely. It does not slip in through the back door or whisper gentle promises about sunshine and daffodils. No sir. It crashes in like a distant cousin who shows up uninvited, kicks off his boots,…
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March First: The Lizardin’ of Alabama
The first warm day of spring in Alabama never announces itself politely. It does not slip in through the back door or whisper gentle promises about sunshine and daffodils. No sir. It crashes in like a distant cousin who shows up uninvited, kicks off his boots, and asks what you got in the fridge. One minute, the air is cold enough to make your teeth clack like nervous castanets.
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The Adventures of Tim Sawyer
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The Adventures of Tim Sawyer
A Piedmont Lantern Story Oh, Tim Sawyer had been warned about Piedmont. His cousin, Tom, had told him it was a place where nothing happened out loud, but everything happened eventually, and usually…
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The Adventures of Tim Sawyer A Piedmont Lantern Story Oh, Tim Sawyer had been warned about Piedmont. His cousin, Tom, had told him it was a place where nothing happened out loud, but everything happened eventually, and usually to you. Tim, being young and foolish and convinced geography couldn’t…
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The Adventures of Tim Sawyer
A Piedmont Lantern Story Oh, Tim Sawyer had been warned about Piedmont. His cousin, Tom, had told him it was a place where nothing happened out loud, but everything happened eventually, and usually to you. Tim, being young and foolish and convinced geography couldn’t outwit him, had laughed and boarded the train anyway. That was how he came to live with Aunt Mozelle Burgess.
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Chapter 20 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – What the House Remembers When Addison fled the room, notebook half-shut, heart hammering like an errant clock, he left the door ajar behind him. Morning light pushed through the crack, thin and yellow, laying its timid hand across the warped floorboards.…
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Chapter 20 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – What the House Remembers
When Addison fled the room, notebook half-shut, heart hammering like an errant clock, he left the door ajar behind him. Morning light pushed through the crack, thin and yellow, laying its timid hand across the warped floorboards. And then, as if cued by breath itself, the house exhaled. The curtains in Lily Pearl’s room stirred, though no wind touched them. The mirror, cracked like a spiderweb, shimmered faintly.
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Chapter Six, Rapture Distress: The Day I Realized Fear Ain’t the Same as Faith
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Chapter Six, Rapture Distress: The Day I Realized Fear Ain’t the Same as Faith
By the time I reached grown-man height, and by the time my voice settled into something deeper than a screen-door squeak, I had been through enough revivals, altar calls, and Second Coming scares t…
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Chapter Six, Rapture Distress: The Day I Realized Fear Ain’t the Same as Faith By the time I reached grown-man height, and by the time my voice settled into something deeper than a screen-door squeak, I had been through enough revivals, altar calls, and Second Coming scares to last several…
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Chapter Six, Rapture Distress: The Day I Realized Fear Ain’t the Same as Faith
By the time I reached grown-man height, and by the time my voice settled into something deeper than a screen-door squeak, I had been through enough revivals, altar calls, and Second Coming scares to last several lifetimes. If fear of the Lord truly was the beginning of wisdom, then I ought to have been the wisest boy in Calhoun County. Trouble was, fear and wisdom do not always shake hands.
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Chapter 19 - The Return of Tommy Wayne - The Reporter from the Piedmont Journal
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Chapter 19 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Reporter from the Piedmont Journal
Addison Lee, stringer for the Piedmont Journal, had driven most of the night, the old sedan eating the miles from Birmingham in steady gulps. He was twenty-six, sharp-jawed, too ambitious for his p…
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Chapter 19 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Reporter from the Piedmont Journal Addison Lee, stringer for the Piedmont Journal, had driven most of the night, the old sedan eating the miles from Birmingham in steady gulps. He was twenty-six, sharp-jawed, too ambitious for his paycheck, and wholly…
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Chapter 19 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Reporter from the Piedmont Journal
Addison Lee, stringer for the Piedmont Journal, had driven most of the night, the old sedan eating the miles from Birmingham in steady gulps. He was twenty-six, sharp-jawed, too ambitious for his paycheck, and wholly unaware of the kind of story he’d wandered into. The Birmingham Post-Herald hadn’t sent him for ghosts, of course. They sent him for human interest; …
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Chapter Five, Rapture Distress: Backsliders, Bootleggers, and the Good-Mannered Sinners
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Chapter Five, Rapture Distress: Backsliders, Bootleggers, and the Good-Mannered Sinners
For all the fiery sermons about holiness, I learned early on that the Congregational Holiness Church was filled with people who were every bit as human as the rest of creation. They carried fears, …
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Chapter Five, Rapture Distress: Backsliders, Bootleggers, and the Good-Mannered Sinners For all the fiery sermons about holiness, I learned early on that the Congregational Holiness Church was filled with people who were every bit as human as the rest of creation. They carried fears, secrets,…
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Chapter Five, Rapture Distress: Backsliders, Bootleggers, and the Good-Mannered Sinners
For all the fiery sermons about holiness, I learned early on that the Congregational Holiness Church was filled with people who were every bit as human as the rest of creation. They carried fears, secrets, laughter, grudges, and the occasional fascination with the bootlegger who lived two ridges over and operated his still with more discretion than the FBI. Now, holiness folks did not approve of liquor.
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Chapter 18 - The Return of Tommy Wayne - What They Don't Tell
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Chapter 18 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – What They Don’t Tell
The Huddle House was near empty by the time Cole Tatum came back that night.Sadie Mae had sent her girls home early, claiming business was slow, though truth was she didn’t want them overhearing wh…
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Chapter 18 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – What They Don’t Tell The Huddle House was near empty by the time Cole Tatum came back that night.Sadie Mae had sent her girls home early, claiming business was slow, though truth was she didn’t want them overhearing what couldn’t rightly be explained.…
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Chapter 18 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – What They Don’t Tell
The Huddle House was near empty by the time Cole Tatum came back that night.Sadie Mae had sent her girls home early, claiming business was slow, though truth was she didn’t want them overhearing what couldn’t rightly be explained. Outside, the storm had moved on toward the ridge, but the air still smelled of rain and electricity. The neon sign in the window buzzed soft, painting the linoleum floor in tired pink light.
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This Ain’t Guatemala!
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This Ain’t Guatemala!
A Piedmont Lantern Story Preacher Dudley Fair had packed for Guatemala. He had the khaki pants with the zipper legs, the good walking shoes he only wore for funerals and airports, and a brand-new S…
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This Ain’t Guatemala! A Piedmont Lantern Story Preacher Dudley Fair had packed for Guatemala. He had the khaki pants with the zipper legs, the good walking shoes he only wore for funerals and airports, and a brand-new Spanish phrasebook he’d flipped through exactly once before deciding the Lord…
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This Ain’t Guatemala!
A Piedmont Lantern Story Preacher Dudley Fair had packed for Guatemala. He had the khaki pants with the zipper legs, the good walking shoes he only wore for funerals and airports, and a brand-new Spanish phrasebook he’d flipped through exactly once before deciding the Lord would handle pronunciation. The church van pulled out at dawn, loaded down with suitcases, casseroles, and righteous intention.
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Pearlie Mae is Banned From Walmart… For Life!
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Pearlie Mae is Banned From Walmart… For Life!
A Piedmont Lantern Story Pearlie Mae Caldwell waited until Maude Baker had taken her third sip of coffee before she leaned in and said, “Now, I’m not real proud of this.” Maude set her cup down slo…
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Pearlie Mae is Banned From Walmart… For Life! A Piedmont Lantern Story Pearlie Mae Caldwell waited until Maude Baker had taken her third sip of coffee before she leaned in and said, “Now, I’m not real proud of this.” Maude set her cup down slow. “Oh Lord, that’s how all your stories start out.”…
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Pearlie Mae is Banned From Walmart… For Life!
A Piedmont Lantern Story Pearlie Mae Caldwell waited until Maude Baker had taken her third sip of coffee before she leaned in and said, “Now, I’m not real proud of this.” Maude set her cup down slow. “Oh Lord, that’s how all your stories start out.” “Well,” Pearlie Mae said, pleased, “this one beats all.” They were sitting in Maude’s kitchen, mid-morning, sunlight slanting in like it had business there.
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Chapter 17 - The Return of Tommy Wayne - The Stranger With a Notebook
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Chapter 17 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Stranger With a Notebook
The sun rose pale and tired over Piedmont, as if it, too, had been up all night listening to whispers. Mist still clung to Terrapin Creek, thin threads of it curling through the oaks like smoke fro…
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Chapter 17 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Stranger With a Notebook The sun rose pale and tired over Piedmont, as if it, too, had been up all night listening to whispers. Mist still clung to Terrapin Creek, thin threads of it curling through the oaks like smoke from an old fire that wouldn’t…
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Chapter 17 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Stranger With a Notebook
The sun rose pale and tired over Piedmont, as if it, too, had been up all night listening to whispers. Mist still clung to Terrapin Creek, thin threads of it curling through the oaks like smoke from an old fire that wouldn’t die. Addison Lee’s car rattled down the narrow road leading into town, tires popping gravel like gunfire. He was young, too young, some might say, for the seriousness he carried in his eyes, and the way he gripped his notebook made him look more like he was heading into battle than chasing a story.
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Chapter Four, Rapture Distress: The Second Coming Forecast
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Chapter Four, Rapture Distress: The Second Coming Forecast
Most families in northeast Alabama checked the weather each morning.Our family checked the Apocalypse report. Folks in the Congregational Holiness Church did not say things like“It might rain today…
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Chapter Four, Rapture Distress: The Second Coming Forecast Most families in northeast Alabama checked the weather each morning.Our family checked the Apocalypse report. Folks in the Congregational Holiness Church did not say things like“It might rain today.”They said“The Lord may come before…
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Chapter Four, Rapture Distress: The Second Coming Forecast
Most families in northeast Alabama checked the weather each morning.Our family checked the Apocalypse report. Folks in the Congregational Holiness Church did not say things like“It might rain today.”They said“The Lord may come before supper, best be ready.” It hung over everything like humidity.Thick.Unavoidable.Always present. As a boy, I learned early that fear came in two varieties.
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Chapter 16 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – Down by Terrapin Creek Night came easy over Piedmont, soft as a prayer said half-hearted and half-believed. The last of the day’s heat sank into the hollows, leaving the trees along Terrapin Creek wrapped in silver breath and the hum of unseen things. The…
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Chapter 16 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – Down by Terrapin Creek
Night came easy over Piedmont, soft as a prayer said half-hearted and half-believed. The last of the day’s heat sank into the hollows, leaving the trees along Terrapin Creek wrapped in silver breath and the hum of unseen things. The water whispered, slow and steady, gliding over roots and broken bottles and the long-forgotten bones of the town’s mistakes. Every so often, a bullfrog croaked somewhere off in the reeds, and an owl answered, solemn and sure.
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Chapter Three, Rapture Distress: Altar Call Panic and the Race for Salvation If you grew up in northeast Alabama under the spell of the Congregational Holiness Church, then you know the altar call was never gentle. It was not an invitation. It was not a suggestion. It was a five-alarm spiritual…
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Chapter Three, Rapture Distress: Altar Call Panic and the Race for Salvation
If you grew up in northeast Alabama under the spell of the Congregational Holiness Church, then you know the altar call was never gentle. It was not an invitation. It was not a suggestion. It was a five-alarm spiritual emergency, and the way those preachers shouted it, you would have thought Heaven had a very small window of business hours.
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Chapter 15 - The Return of Tommy Wayne - The Talk at the Huddle House
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Chapter 15 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Talk at the Huddle House
By noon, half the town had heard that Sheriff Cole Tatum and Sadie Mae had gone pokin’ ‘round Lily Pearl’s place that morning, and by suppertime, the story had stretched itself taller than the stee…
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Chapter 15 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Talk at the Huddle House By noon, half the town had heard that Sheriff Cole Tatum and Sadie Mae had gone pokin’ ‘round Lily Pearl’s place that morning, and by suppertime, the story had stretched itself taller than the steeple at First Baptist Church. At…
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Chapter 15 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Talk at the Huddle House
By noon, half the town had heard that Sheriff Cole Tatum and Sadie Mae had gone pokin’ ‘round Lily Pearl’s place that morning, and by suppertime, the story had stretched itself taller than the steeple at First Baptist Church. At the Huddle House, the booths were full of voices leaning low, spoons stirring coffee long gone cold. Clara Mae sat at the corner table, knitting something she wasn’t watching.
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Settlin’ Things A Piedmont Lantern Story Piedmont had blamed a lot of things over the years. Bad luck. Sour dispositions. Crops that failed for no reason anyone could name. Men who turned mean overnight. Women who withered like something had been taken from the soil beneath them. Folks said it was…
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Settlin’ Things
A Piedmont Lantern Story Piedmont had blamed a lot of things over the years. Bad luck. Sour dispositions. Crops that failed for no reason anyone could name. Men who turned mean overnight. Women who withered like something had been taken from the soil beneath them. Folks said it was just the way of things. The Fagan twins knew better. Takota kept the tools.
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Forget-Me-Not For I Shall Always love Thee ❤️ Sweetest Valentine 💘
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Forget-Me-Not For I Shall Always love Thee ❤️ Sweetest Valentine 💘
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Promise Keeping at Terrapin Creek
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Promise Keeping at Terrapin Creek
A Piedmont Lantern Story Quinton Rhinehart had kept his promise longer than he’d kept most things. He parked where the dirt road gave up pretending and walked the rest of the way, the bottle tucked…
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Promise Keeping at Terrapin Creek A Piedmont Lantern Story Quinton Rhinehart had kept his promise longer than he’d kept most things. He parked where the dirt road gave up pretending and walked the rest of the way, the bottle tucked under his arm like it might slip away if he loosened his grip.…
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Promise Keeping at Terrapin Creek
A Piedmont Lantern Story Quinton Rhinehart had kept his promise longer than he’d kept most things. He parked where the dirt road gave up pretending and walked the rest of the way, the bottle tucked under his arm like it might slip away if he loosened his grip. Terrapin Creek sounded the same as it always had, water over stone, patient and unconcerned, which felt comforting.
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Chapter 14 - The Return of Tommy Wayne - The Still Warm Kettle
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Chapter 14 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Still Warm Kettle
Morning came slow over Terrapin Creek, dragging its light through a thin, gray mist that clung to the trees like ghosts reluctant to leave. Sheriff Cole Tatum drove the back streets out to Lily Pea…
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Chapter 14 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Still Warm Kettle Morning came slow over Terrapin Creek, dragging its light through a thin, gray mist that clung to the trees like ghosts reluctant to leave. Sheriff Cole Tatum drove the back streets out to Lily Pearl’s old place with Sadie Mae riding…
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Chapter 14 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Still Warm Kettle
Morning came slow over Terrapin Creek, dragging its light through a thin, gray mist that clung to the trees like ghosts reluctant to leave. Sheriff Cole Tatum drove the back streets out to Lily Pearl’s old place with Sadie Mae riding shotgun, her coffee thermos steaming up the truck cab. “Lord, Cole,” she said, squintin’ out the window. “You sure he’s out here?
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Chapter Two, Rapture Distress: Evangelists and Other Nightmares If the revival preacher was the spark that set your nerves to tinglin’, the traveling evangelists were the blaze that burned the fear right into your marrow. They came from out of town, usually from places with biblical names like…
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Chapter Two, Rapture Distress: Evangelists and Other Nightmares
If the revival preacher was the spark that set your nerves to tinglin’, the traveling evangelists were the blaze that burned the fear right into your marrow. They came from out of town, usually from places with biblical names like Calvary County or Jordan Mills, and they carried reputations that traveled faster than they did. Folks spoke of them in hushed tones.
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Chapter 13 - The Return of Tommy Wayne - The Weight of Her Voice
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Chapter 13 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Weight of Her Voice
For a spell, there was nothin’ but the quiet.The kind of quiet that’s not an absence of sound but the presence of it, a hum under the skin, a whisper in the bones. The kind that makes a man feel li…
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Chapter 13 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Weight of Her Voice For a spell, there was nothin’ but the quiet.The kind of quiet that’s not an absence of sound but the presence of it, a hum under the skin, a whisper in the bones. The kind that makes a man feel like he’s standin’ at the edge of…
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Chapter 13 – The Return of Tommy Wayne – The Weight of Her Voice
For a spell, there was nothin’ but the quiet.The kind of quiet that’s not an absence of sound but the presence of it, a hum under the skin, a whisper in the bones. The kind that makes a man feel like he’s standin’ at the edge of something holy or terrible and can’t tell which. I didn’t move.Couldn’t.
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New Yesterdays by Jim L. Wright
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Smorgasbord Book Promotions 2026 – Share an Excerpt – Boost one of your books #YA #TimeTravel #Historical New Yesterdays by Jim L. Wright
In this regular series for 2026, you are invited to share an excerpt of 400 to 500 words from any book you have written you would like to give a boost to. This feature is for any author who has bee…
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Chapter One, Rapture Distress - Sawdust and Salvation
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Chapter One, Rapture Distress – Sawdust and Salvation
When I was growin’ up in northeast Alabama, revival season arrived with all the subtlety of a freight train in a thunderstorm. One day, the church bulletin board was hangin’ there mindin’ its own b…
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Chapter One, Rapture Distress – Sawdust and Salvation When I was growin’ up in northeast Alabama, revival season arrived with all the subtlety of a freight train in a thunderstorm. One day, the church bulletin board was hangin’ there mindin’ its own business. The next, it sprouted a sign three…
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Chapter One, Rapture Distress – Sawdust and Salvation
When I was growin’ up in northeast Alabama, revival season arrived with all the subtlety of a freight train in a thunderstorm. One day, the church bulletin board was hangin’ there mindin’ its own business. The next, it sprouted a sign three feet tall that hollered REVIVAL STARTS MONDAY. GET YOUR HEARTS RIGHT WITH GOD. I don’t know whose job it was to pick the dates, but they had the uncanny ability to choose the hottest week of the entire year, and they chose it with the enthusiasm of a man layin’ out picnic blankets on the surface of the sun.
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Chapter 12 - Tommy Wayne Returns - The House That Wouldn't Let Go
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Chapter 12 – Tommy Wayne Returns – The House That Wouldn’t Let Go
The old place sat at the corner of Ladiga Street and 5th Avenue, still shouldered by oaks that leaned too close, like they were whisperin’ warnings. The front gate hung crooked, the latch long rust…
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Chapter 12 – Tommy Wayne Returns – The House That Wouldn’t Let Go The old place sat at the corner of Ladiga Street and 5th Avenue, still shouldered by oaks that leaned too close, like they were whisperin’ warnings. The front gate hung crooked, the latch long rusted through. I pushed it open slow,…
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Chapter 12 – Tommy Wayne Returns – The House That Wouldn’t Let Go
The old place sat at the corner of Ladiga Street and 5th Avenue, still shouldered by oaks that leaned too close, like they were whisperin’ warnings. The front gate hung crooked, the latch long rusted through. I pushed it open slow, and it gave out a sound like a sigh. Like it’d been holding its breath fifteen years waiting on me to come back.
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Beulah Mae Spills The Tea
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Beulah Mae Spills The Tea
A Piedmont Lantern Story Oh lord, Beulah Mae had been waiting on this. There she was, sat at Pearl Albea’s kitchen table with her coffee cooling untouched, hands folded so tight in her lap you’d th…
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Beulah Mae Spills The Tea A Piedmont Lantern Story Oh lord, Beulah Mae had been waiting on this. There she was, sat at Pearl Albea’s kitchen table with her coffee cooling untouched, hands folded so tight in her lap you’d think she was holding something alive. Pearl noticed it. Pearl always…
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Beulah Mae Spills The Tea
A Piedmont Lantern Story Oh lord, Beulah Mae had been waiting on this. There she was, sat at Pearl Albea’s kitchen table with her coffee cooling untouched, hands folded so tight in her lap you’d think she was holding something alive. Pearl noticed it. Pearl always noticed. She took a slow sip, set her cup down gentle onto the delft blue saucer, and said nothing at all.
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A Wedding That Almost Happened
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A Wedding That Almost Happened
A Piedmont Lantern Story Well, Y’all, I’m just gonna tell you what happened right off the bat. Twenty minutes before the wedding, I found my brother kissing my fiancé. I bet that got your attention…
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A Wedding That Almost Happened A Piedmont Lantern Story Well, Y’all, I’m just gonna tell you what happened right off the bat. Twenty minutes before the wedding, I found my brother kissing my fiancé. I bet that got your attention, didn't it? It wasn’t a polite kiss. Not a startled,…
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A Wedding That Almost Happened
A Piedmont Lantern Story Well, Y’all, I’m just gonna tell you what happened right off the bat. Twenty minutes before the wedding, I found my brother kissing my fiancé. I bet that got your attention, didn't it? It wasn’t a polite kiss. Not a startled, oh-God-you’re-here peck. Oh no! This was the kind of kiss that had some weight to it, the kind that rearranged breathing and made a body forget time itself.
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Chapter 11 - Tommy Wayne Returns; The Weight of Coming Home
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Chapter 11 – Tommy Wayne Returns; The Weight of Coming Home
When you leave a place like Piedmont, you think it’ll stop changin’ once you’re gone, like a photograph pinned in time. But it don’t. It grows crooked in your absence. The hardware store where I wo…
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Check out an Excerpt from gay mystery book Impulse Control by Emily Carrington
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Excerpt from gay mystery book Impulse Control by Emily Carrington
Title: Impulse Control Author: Emily Carrington Publisher: Changeling Press Cover Art: Angela Knight Genres: Contemporary, Mystery /Suspense /Intrigue, New Releases, Romance Themes: 2nd Chance Romance, LGBTQ+ Gay, Multicultural & Interracial Series: Marisburg Chronicles (#8) Multiverse: Sticks & Stones (#3) Book Length: Novella Page Count: 77 Synopsis Spontaneity can be both exciting and terrifying for everyone involved.
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