For your reading pleasure. 🙂 Introducing “Second Reads by the Sea: The Blue Sword” — a short story by Tracy Joy Jones. *** The bell above the bright blue door jangled merrily. Moshi’s head bobbed from the depths of his book to offer a greeting. “Welcome to 2nd Reads by the Sea.” The stranger waved her acknowledgment, spared him a small smile, and immediately began her search. Moshi wondered that she could see anything through the sunglasses she’d neglected to remove. Perhaps they had prescription lenses, and she needed them to read. Or perhaps she was so used to neglecting …
An Excerpt from “Must Love Pumpkins”
I love this little story I wrote last fall, and I hope you will too. It’s releasing on Amazon in July. But if you’re longing for pumpkins and fall and hot chocolate a little early, enjoy! Kayla Mayberry had always been sensitive about her hair. She should have been over both the compliments and the comments by now, but she wasn’t. It didn’t help that she had two older sisters with dark, russet-red hair or that her younger siblings all tended towards strawberry-blonde rather than red. In contrast, Kayla’s hair was “full of copper” — her mother’s gentle way of …
Off to the Races
A few months ago, I got a random email in my inbox — Does anyone have a horse story where you learned a lesson from a horse? Horses? In all honesty, I’ve probably ridden ten horses in my life, maybe fifteen. The point is, I am anything but an expert. Although, I have ridden in some spectacular locations. I rode a horse in Montana across the flat, flat earth where all I could see was the horizon. I’ve ridden on long skinny roads in the middle of farmland (see picture – That’s not me on the horse, but it’s the …