89878 words long. 2000 Hard Shell Word Factory [Golden Contract Contest Winner] en Novel text/xml Suspense Chapter 9 COLE NEEDED THE short respite alone in the kitchen while she hunted up a bandage. He was worried about her, and his son and Karen and his nephew Tim, but did he need to unload it a...
She was carrying a crowbar. Pauline took off one of her ballerina flats and flung it hard at Mercy’s head. Mercy ducked. “Stop! Miss Mertens, are you crazy?” Picking up a lamp from the table to use as a weapon, I said, “Why a...
But tourists were like chipmunks; once the day warmed up, they came out of their burrows, and I needed the dough. I put Pauline to work setting up the pecks of apples on the flatbed wagons with the pumpkins.Pauline said, “I need to get back so I can work on my classroom.”“No, you need to hunt dow...