Wine Snob

"Lauren gets her ballot box stuffed on election night"

I met friends the night of the 2024 election at a local wine bar and craft beer taproom. We figured it was a good night to go out drinking since the TV networks would have wall-to-wall news coverage on the...

The Georgia Gardener

"A gardener plants more than flowers at a Georgia estate."

Bailey surveyed the landscape he had tended for some thirty-seven years. He had wandered onto the Henderson Estate, a seventeen-year-old black kid going nowhere in particular, and asked for a job. Mr. Henderson put him to work with old Rawlings,...

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Playing With Knives

"They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. But what would you call the person who snatches those eyes and the soul?"

Mosquito bites. That was the first thing Evangeline Laguerre felt when she opened her eyes in the dark. Then, the coldness and stench of dirty water invaded her nostrils. Where the hell was she? The last thing she remembered was...

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