Category: Excerpts
Fading away
My father fell Into obscurity My mother is losing her mind And all that I can say with some surety Is that it’s only a matter of time Before I fade away Before I fade away My brother takes solace in the market My wife spends too much time alone…
Take advantage of a real opportunity
Maybe next time around, I’ll get the contract, be successful, Maybe next time around, I’ll know the answers to the quiz. Catchy lyrics? I’m thinking about writing a musical based on my life. This could be a real opportunity. All I need is “an angel” to back it. I’ve already…
And then I wrote some romance
Every so often I like to share what I’m currently working on. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’m working on the manuscript for a story tentatively titled, ‘Clarice’. I’ve got around 42,000 words so far. While story development is slow, because I’m pulled in so many different directions,…
Death without death
“The priests would have you believe have you believe that life is linear, with no deviations or side trips. Just birth to death to after-life, that’s it, with an eternity of waiting for whatever comes next. Personally I don’t think it’s that simple. I think it’s more like a stone…
Anniversary Poem
I wrote this for my wife, Malette, on our thirty-seventh wedding anniversary yesterday. A lasting relationship, as imperfect as it may be, transcends mere love, to form a bond that is stronger, and is linked inevitably to our mutual destiny. © Copyright 2016 by Kevin Fraleigh.
A Concept And A Cover
Seldom is the concept for a story accompanied by a concept for a cover. Let me know what you think… With luck the full story will be finished sometime this summer. The Tangled Man Damien Cole is an ex-cop turned private investigator. He is a traditionalist―honest, but pragmatic. He owns…
Take A Shot, Then Take A Shot. Just That Easy.
An excerpt from Any Tomorrow: The Curse. He buried her that afternoon in the spot she so long ago had chosen for herself. He fashioned a wooden cross and marked her place. If the world ever regains its sanity, he vowed, he would replace the cross with a granite headstone. …
The Changes Never End
Okay, so I’m planning to publish Any Tomorrow: The Culling, the final novel of the Any Tomorrow Trilogy, in January. Everything is ready to go. The problem is that a few weeks ago I started working on what I thought would be a new novel tentatively called The Last Pope…
Sock Monkey, Crucified
It’s Halloween and I couldn’t let my favorite holiday go by without a post. Nothing eerie, nothing scary, just a little odd. Think about this. Chester Hendricks was not a superstitious man by any standard definition of the word. He wasn’t scared of black cats and he cared nothing about…
