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A Short Story This one came from a question I couldn’t stop turning over: what happens to the stories that never got told? Not lost in a fire or a flood — just quietly buried. Wrong time, wrong gender, wrong connections. The usual story. I started pulling on that thread and ended up with Maxine, a woman suffocating in a… Continue reading The Lost & Forgotten Library
I’m Back. Please Clap. Here’s what I’ve been up to, in the order I remembered it while staring at a blank document for forty-five minutes. Let me set the scene: it is Tuesday. My cat, Jolene, has once again claimed the recliner with the territorial confidence of a small, indifferent god. I am on the couch. This is her house.… Continue reading Substack Catch-Up Letter
The Poison and the Attack Part 1: The Poison and the Attack In the current story, Falcon is a careful, protective Guardian who values consent above all else. This post takes us back to 2017, showing the trauma that cemented her principles: a letter from her maker, Arabella, that compromised her control, leading her to nearly kill an innocent man… Continue reading The Charleston Tale: E7
A New Philosophy Falcon won Charleston, but the territory is fraught with dangers far greater than Edmund Ashford. This post explores the immediate aftermath of her victory, the founding of her progressive philosophy for the city, and the chilling warning she receives from the ancient vampire Court and her estranged maker, Arabella. Edmund had cleared out his personal effects with… Continue reading The Charleston Tale: E6 P2
The Wager In the present, Falcon faces a threat from her maker, Arabella. To understand how Falcon became powerful enough to challenge Arabella, we must return to 1852, when she challenged the ruling vampire of Charleston, Edmund Ashford, in a high-stakes card game that determined the city’s fate. Charleston, 1852. The card game had been going for eleven hours in… Continue reading The Charleston Tale: E6 P1
The Forgotten Ones The past is not yet over. In the last episode, we saw how Falcon’s maker, Arabella, lost her control and departed Charleston in a fury two centuries ago. Now, in the present day, Falcon’s choices have made her vulnerable, and Arabella has returned to prove a deadly point. Meanwhile, Manon encounters a different, older kind of danger… Continue reading The Charleston Tale: E5
I waited by the window with my nose pressed to the glass, I watched the mail truck rumble down our street and then roll past. I checked the doorstep seven times before my breakfast plate, And paced around the living room and whispered, “Will it wait?” My very first real novel, printed, bound, and mine to hold— Not pixels on… Continue reading The Day My Book Arrived
New Orleans and the Long Betrayal In the last installment, Charlotte Falcon rejected her maker, Arabella, choosing independence over ownership. But for an immortal, a break-up is not an ending. This post explores Arabella’s long, bitter exile, her decades-long surveillance of Falcon, and the dangerous opportunity she sees in Manon Laurent in the present day. Arabella left Charleston the next… Continue reading The Charleston Tale: E4 P2
A Romance in Three Parts Last week, I released A Haunting Before I Do—a supernatural thriller that plunges you into a bachelorette night where ghosts are real, vampires are your best friends, and magic comes with a serious learning curve. It’s dark, intricate, and demands emotional investment. It’s heavy. So this week, I wanted to offer you something different. This… Continue reading Double-booked
The Maker’s Heart In the last episode, Charlotte Falcon defied the mysterious Court, choosing love and freedom over ancient law. But where did Falcon learn to value freedom so fiercely? This episode takes us back two centuries to 1821, where a deadly fever and a powerful vampire named Arabella changed Charlotte’s life forever. Charleston, 1821: The Turning The fever ward… Continue reading The Charleston Tale: E4
Winter Short Stories A story about the intimacy of shared silence, surviving January, and the slow recognition of something new. I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of “wintering”—those necessary periods of dormancy when we retreat inward, when the world asks too much and we need to simply be for a while. January is the month for this. The… Continue reading The Tuesday Women
The Revolutionary Choice Welcome back to Falcon & Manon: A Charleston Tale. Falcon has admitted the truth and Manon has chosen to stay, accepting the boundaries of their mortal/immortal love. But their defiance has consequences. The powerful and secretive “Court” that governs the vampire world has issued an ultimatum, forcing Falcon to make a final, dangerous choice. FALCON She was… Continue reading The Charleston Tale: E3 P2
Winter Short Stories Every January, we promise ourselves we’ll become someone new. We buy the gym membership, the journal, the expensive hobby kit. But what if all those abandoned attempts weren’t failures? What if they were breadcrumbs leading you to who you were always meant to be? — The box was labeled Misc. Storage in her careful handwriting, but that… Continue reading The Archive of Almost