An excerpt from a work in progress.

Beth’s life was a mess.

To look at her, you’d never guess that she likes to stand in front of a crowd and sing.

I had no idea what I was about to do to secure my birthright. 

An excerpt from the novella The Gallery.

Grant Aldridge’s fifth great-grandfather, Thaddeus, was discharged from George Washington’s Continental Army after he was deemed unfit to serve. 

Living here is going to kill us.

Harvey’s life had been lived, and he was eager for it to end.

The South is a haunted place, his father always said. There are too many sins in its past, too much pain and suffering.

In April of 1951, in what had once been a warehouse on the outskirts of a tiny town in Garfield County, Washington, an innocent man was hanged for no other reason than that a hanging was needed.