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Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 4 part 3

From the best seat in the Palace, Sterling Sr. crowed, blending in with the tumult around him. “Did you see that move, boy? Blast Off’s calling card: a few straight-out jumps and then a killer right reverse. Sure tumbled ol’ Hank Dixon!” The old man hooted as the fallen rider sought refuge behind the arena…

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Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 4 part 2

Forrest didn’t mind his granddad going off and leaving him with a stranger. That was nothing unusual. But the clucking old hen now attending him was. Forrest couldn’t concentrate with her chatter filling the deserted grandstands. He couldn’t do what he needed to before the performance, because despite what he’d told his best friend, Tom,…

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Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 2 part 3. Plus: This Fall-en World

Since this last Chapter 2 segment of Chase is so small, below it I’m also posting another updated seasonal vignette originally published in 2020. Betty Rawlings looked across her Bible at the two boys devouring her gingersnaps. “It’s good to see that my reading didn’t affect your appetites.” She tousled Forrest’s hair, then smoothed it…

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Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 1

Raised as a tomboy, I never intended to write romances. I never even read ‘em. Stocked by my cultured mother and paternal grandmother, the resort library contained no such pulp. My best friend and her family devoured precarious stacks of Harlequins® at her farm, but I despised the melodramatic cover art, writing and plot. Why…

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