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Chapter 2, Oct 26.

Read Chapter 1 of 68 on October 25. Reading one chapter a day as part of the Chapter-A-Day read-along. Join us! http://nicksenger.com/onecatholiclife...

Read Chapter 1 of 68 on October 25. Reading one chapter a day as part of the Chapter-A-Day read-along. Join us! http://nicksenger.com/onecatholiclife...

"The police are just doing their job: a central responsibility of policing has always been to discipline Black people on behalf of the ruling class."
The description of white vs. blackness as schoolyard taunts is apt, where whiteness is the "rubber" that bounces all immorality, depravity, sickness, weakness, & vice off itself onto the "glue" of blackness, where "every negative thing that gets hurled at it sticks."

My manuscript is complete, uploaded to Amazon and Smashwords, and ready for pre-order now with a launch date of September 14th!
Here are the links, if you're interested in this collection of bite-sized meet-cutes, all set in and around Sacramento, CA:
*Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FYSRRB4
*Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

A 10-word meet-cute for August 10th:
Bowling ball, fractured toe. Cute ER doc revived her smile.
-LR

Only 2 stories left to write and the book will be DONE!

A one-line teaser, from "Shady Ladies":

It had been a long shift at the Shady Lady Saloon, and Shauna was halfway through counting the tips in the antique glass jar that sat on the bar when a woman dressed all in black slipped through the door.

I'm so curious to find out where this is all going! The tale is unwinding so slowly, and I keep expecting something terrible to pop out from behind every corner of this grotesque house, but instead it's just more secrets rising up from the graves like the mushrooms or the mold... this reminds me so much of Crimson Peak, but it's much more moody and broody, and I like Noemí much more than what's-her-face.