by Think In The Morning | Aug 9, 2020 | Words |
Charles flipped his iPAD closed and relaxed his head onto the pillow. He looked over at Scissors. She was frantically scrolling through her texts.“How did you get the name Scissors?”She rolled her eyes and gave him that look.“An old boyfriend. He told everyone I...
by Think In The Morning | Aug 3, 2020 | Words |
Before reading this sequel, read Part I Short Fiction – Charlotte Marie Part I Zihuatanejo. Right out of the movie. A beach, a boat. No redemption. A good place to hide or to live if it comes to that.Things went south for Max Perkins after the election. ...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 25, 2020 | Words |
The stock market rose steadily during the summer. The country was awash with cash. The economy didn’t want the cash so speculators sopped it up. A few people became very rich. Max Perkins was not one of them.Perkins was an ordinary man. He was not a player...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 15, 2020 | Words |
The bar is very narrow. There are stools to the left alongside the bar as you walk in and one long line of tables with chairs on the right. At the end a bathroom and a door that leads outside.Randall sits by the back door. It’s quiet there, a good place to write. ...
by Think In The Morning | May 22, 2020 | Words |
It is the autumn of 1918 and a world war and an influenza epidemic rage outside the isolated utopian logging community of Commonwealth, Wash. In an eerily familiar climate of fear, rumor and patriotic hysteria, the town enacts a strict quarantine, posting guards at...
by Think In The Morning | May 17, 2020 | Words |
Think in the Morning continues our look into the literary memories of the 1918 Pandemic. Our first read was Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Katherine Anne Porter gave us an unforgettable memory of the impact of the Spanish flu and the Great War on a young couple whose paths...
