Short fiction

Caution: Dangerous Curves Ahead Jamie Farthing The Charger thundered down the dusty desert highway, its midnight metal a blotch of darkness against the backdrop of nature’s canvas of red’s and deep gold. Rubber wrestled with pavement as he navigated the steel beast closer to what he hoped would be his salvation. She would never let him have a car like this one, he thought slamming the stick shift into gear. She would find him, he was sure. She was good at finding things, even when he tried to keep it hidden away. Like the last shred of manhood he possessed. Tires protested in a series of wines and chirps as he took a sharp turn too fast, just like his relationship. Her voice, so much like his mothers, telling—no—demanding he get a better job, better clothes, better life. Another sharp turn and he was barreling down an unpaved road picking up speed, the speedometer a reflection of how quickly his life had ceased to be his own and more her idea of what it was supposed to be. Buy the cookie cutter home, go to garden parties, have 2.5 children…marry her. The car jostled as the dirt road disappeared. Rocks tore at the undercarriage and the steady slap of dried brush scratched along his windows before he brought the car to a sudden stop. Lavender and B.O. drifted from the passenger seat, and he knew. She’d found him. Graying fingers strummed the dashboard. “I told you.” Her mouth, set in comical grimace, made the words sound as though they were being forced through a cheese grater. Every hair on the back of his neck shot skyward as she turned toward him. Bits of ruined white fabric clung to the gaping hole where his twelve gage shotgun had torn through her chest. The lace and crystals adorning her wedding dress became a macabre picture frame surrounding the gore of blood from her destroyed arteries. He was no doctor but he thought he could see part of her lung beginning to slide down her ruined wedding dress. Bile bit at the back of his throat. Killing her was the easy part. He turned back to the immense canyon, its lip just at the edge of his front tires. She wheezed beside him. “I’ll always be with you.” He slammed the car into first and hit the gas.

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It's a whole new year, and with it brings a whole new set of challenges.

I've set out and accomplished a lot last year. I got Embracing Winter published and available on all forms possible.

See? Isn't it pretty?


Along with the help of some of the best actors (and people) I got the live action trailer done.

Working hard.

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My wonderful Overlord Kiana, has put her nose to the grind (along with mine) and started pimping me out to bookstores.

And now begins the new year. I took a small break, okay, who am I kidding? It was more like a break caused by to much procrastination.

But I'm back on the wagon folks! Even with this mountain of "omg how in the hell am I going to be able to get through this" of research. 

I just want to thank everyone for being patient and staying with me through this crazy ride.