Today and tomorrow, November 30 and December 1, the Kindle version of Alice Black can be downloaded for free. It’s also on Kindle Unlimited. Alice’s perfect childhood changes when at age six, shortly after a visit from a policeman, her father and brother disappear from their home in Queens. Alice is left with a shellContinue reading “A Coming of Age Story”
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Sally
In 1968, Sally, at 109 is both the oldest and only African American resident of the old-folks home where Alice works as a nurse. Drawn to Sally, Alice sits at Sally’s bedside and asks her about her life, returning home each night to journal about it. Alice discovers something profound, something she takes with herContinue reading “Sally”
Romance, Women’s Fiction, Mystery–All Rolled Into One
The Missing Butler
This is a short story I entered in the contest: nycmidnight.com/ I was given the genre of Mystery with the subject of a bank account, and the character of a butler. The photograph was taken from http://www.briarpress.org/7388. Synopsis Nigel Brown is given little to go on for his first case as newly promoted inspector, as theContinue reading “The Missing Butler”
J. Schlenker 
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