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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Forty

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Marcos finally spills his big secret to Dave, and hopes for the best… < Read Chapter 40 Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter FortyBalloon Marcos dropped his head and pulled on his hair with one hand, … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Thirty-Nine

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Matteo finally finds his thief… < Read Chapter 38 | Read Chapter 40 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter Thirty-NineTo Catch a Thief Sunday morning dawned bright and clear. The middle of May was turning … Read more

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Point of View: Miz Fortune’s Lonely Hearts Salon Excerpt

Something a little different today. πŸ™‚ I’m sharing an excerpt from Miz Fortune’s Lonely Hearts Salon, a River City novella I wrote for the Love is a Drag anthology (note, will not be available on Amazon until release day, 3/28): Miz Fortune’s Lonely Hearts Salon Chester Carlson hit send on the email to the IRS, completing the last task of his day. Simple, easy, predictable. That’s how he liked it, and work these days hardly ever disappointed. He’d long since exhausted his idealistic youth, having moved on from wanting to make a difference in the world of finance to hoping to … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Thirty-Eight

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Ben and Loralei have their first date, and secrets are told…. < Read Chapter 37 | Read Chapter 39 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter Thirty-EightRules of the First Date Ben stared at his face … Read more

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Author Spotlight: M. C. Benner Dixon

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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: M. C. Benner Dixon lives, writes, and grows things in Pittsburgh, PA. She is quick to make a pun and slow to cut her grass. Her debut novel, The Height of Land, is the 2022 Orison Fiction Prize winner and will be released by Orison Books. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Reckoning, Literary Hub, Funicular, Fusion Fragment, Appalachian Review, and elsewhere. Millions of Suns, a collection of craft essays co-authored … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Thirty-Seven

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Sam visits an old haunt, and is haunted by what he finds…. < Read Chapter 36 | Read Chapter 38 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter Thirty-SevenOld Haunts It had been an early morning. Carmelina … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Thirty-Six

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Gio sets out to explore Italy’s foodie scene, and reunite with some old relatives… < Read Chapter 35 | Read Chapter 37 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter Thirty-SixTrains & Race Car Drivers Note: The … Read more

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Review: The Gauntlet Runner

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Genre: Sci-Fantasy, Romance Sub-Arc LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Bisexual, Intersex Reviewer: Estora Get It On Amazon | Universal Buy Link This review contains spoilers for the first book of the Tharassas Cycle, The Dragon Eater, so if you haven’t read that book first – what are you waiting for?! The Dragon Eater left us on a cliffhanger, with our three main protagonists – Raven the thief who is now part-dragon, the guard Aik who is in love with Raven, and Silya the new Hencha Queen – scattered across the land. Raven was kidnapped by beasts that brought him to a small community of others like … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Thirty-Five

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Carmelina arrives in Rome with Daniele and Gio, and literally spills her secret… < Read Chapter 34 | Read Chapter 36 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter Thirty-FiveA Roma Carmelina stared out of the train … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Thirty-Four

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Ainsley makes a report, and then runs into an unexpected someone at her dorm… < Read Chapter 33 | Read Chapter 35 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter Thirty-FourThe Aftermath β€œAre you sure about this?” … Read more