HeyJaredFiction And Also Cats
This newsletter delivers original micro fiction usually about crazy cat antics and longer (sometimes serial) cozy mysteries that have our feline friends helping solve the cases. Along the way you meet my two tabbies Mando and Motron who "help".
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Smoke Over Bridgeport Chapter 10: The Truth Revealed (opens the original)
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Armed with this new knowledge, Callie headed off to find Sarah. If she was even there. Would the woman bother to show up to a donation drive for the building she’d burnt down? Callie then remembered seeing her the morning after the fire, looking bored as Mrs. Henderson handed out assignments. Sarah had. Had it been to cover her tracks?Callie had so many questions. She hadn’t been looking long when she saw Matt. It surprised her.“Are you here for me?” she asked when he walked by.“Yea.” He looked
Smoke Over Bridgeport Chapter 9: New Suspects (opens the original)
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IndexChapter 8“Anything, Callie.”“Does Mr. Maxwell have a deal to donate to the church as well as the childcare center, or the childcare center only?”“His donations are actually to the church. We designated them to the childcare center because that’s where they do the most good. So he makes his biggest donation of the year during the annual bake-off. Though this year he didn’t donate as much. The c
Smoke Over Bridgeport Chapter 8: Picking Up the Pieces (opens the original)
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IndexChapter 7 At the hospital, her worst fears were confirmed. She was having a miscarriage. It was something she’d heard about many times. It was not anything she did but sometimes something that happened, the doctor repeated this platitude now. Sniffling as she shivered in the uncomfortable hospital gown, Callie didn’t care much for the platitude.Matt came rushing in. “Callie, are you OK? They said you were brought in for a
Smoke Over Bridgeport Chapter 7: Shattered Expectations (opens the original)
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IndexChapter 6 Callie woke up to Mando headbutting her in the face. “Mando!”It was a habit the cat had picked up when he wanted something or wanted to tell you he loved you. It could go either way. In this case, it seemed Motron had pushed his brother out of the way of the food bowl, and Mando was hungry. Callie reached down and grabbed some food and put it in the extra bowl they kept around for such an incident. “There you go, little buddy.”<p
It is Finished (opens the original)
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Two months off - it seems like a long time and not long enough. But I’ve finished writing “Smoke Over Bridgeport” and will begin to post on 07/17 after I finish one last round of edits. It will post every other week from there until the story ends. For now, Tuesday stories and daily stories will remain on hold. I wish grief worked on our own timeline, but it doesn’t. And while I try to push through my writing block the best I’ve managed to do is begrudgingly finish “Smoke” and continue my journa
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