Chapters 1 through 13 - PDF

The usual disclaimer - you want to read full chapters in order. I particularly like the opening of chapter 13, though, and it doesn't give anything away even if you haven't started the book yet. In fact, I particularly like the entire chapter. That's probably why it's longer than many of the others. Personalities are fun, especially the kind of broad personalities that can be given to minor characters; they would become tiresome if they took up too much of the story.

Chapter 12 is ... disturbing. At least I find it so.

I'm providing 1 - 13 in a single PDF, I'll try and do that once a month. If someone can suggest a better way of packaging it, I'm all ears.


Chapter 13 – Hormones

Mary Ellen O'Brien lived in a cliché. Agent Laramie's black town car looked as out of place as a flying saucer parked in front of the perfect picket fence bordering the perfectly trimmed postage stamp lawn in which two cats, one calico and one orange tabby, sat contentedly licking their paws, watching the perfect little birdhouse for any signs of activity. The small ranch was a perfect starter home for the perfect young couple; the second bedroom would make a perfect nursery for their first perfect baby and the compact little kitchen was just ... perfect.



(get chapters 1 - 13 by clicking here)