Another of my short stories has been released! What Blood is For, in which a young girl uncovers the murderous past of the man she thought was her father, is available now for purchase from Black Hare Press. The power to avenge her real parents might be in Abigail’s hands, but what place will be left for her in the world if she takes it?
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She’d cried when she had first seen her grandmother’s handwriting hurrying across the page. Scrawled sharp and small, as if she’d written it by its own light at night, listening for sounds from the study.
Abigail’s name glowed across the top. Everything below was a way of saying, I’m sorry. A way of saying, I lied.
She’d read it enough times to memorize it, but she still hadn’t killed the hope that it might somehow read differently the next time.
So she started from the beginning again. As her grandmother did, from how her mother had fallen in love with a man who was not her father…
