Unmasked

UNMASKED

Behind the screaming news headlines, behind the hype and the sensationalism, lies the quiet but dramatic tale of people whose actions may change the lives of the next generation.

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CONTENTS

The Greatest of Goods.

Puppets.

Twenty Thousand Gold Stars.

The Greatest of Goods

To all appearances, Jevon leads an uneventful life. The son of divorced parents, he is little noted by his high school classmates, preferring to spend his leisure hours at home or in the public library.

But people around him are beginning to sense that all is not well: his mother, who finds it hard to determine the correct balance between encouragement and nagging; a classmate who struggles along the fine line between socially acceptable nonconformity and disobedience to societal ethics; and a teacher who fears that Jevon is hiding a dark secret. Knowing that speaking out could lead to disaster, Jevon must decide whether anyone in his life can be trusted . . . including himself.

¶ Novella | Contemporary fiction.

EXCERPT – The Greatest of Goods: Excerpt.

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Puppets

A reporter is assigned to cover what sounds like the perfect feel-good story: the victim of a crime will forgive her offender. The only problem is that the criminal and the victim are refusing to cooperate.

¶ Novelette: 10,000 words | Contemporary fiction | Genre tags (with minor spoilers) | Reviews (with spoilers).

ONLINE EDITION – Puppets.

Twenty Thousand Gold Stars

White Rose has lived a double life for too long. For too many years, he has struggled alone to determine how he should handle an ethical dilemma he never wanted to face. Now, finally, he has found help online. But is it the right help?

Twenty Thousand Gold Stars describes an online world where anonymity is all-important, and where a knock on the door can spell disaster. Yet behind the masks that are unwillingly donned, men and women seek answers to imperative questions that will determine, not only their own futures, but the futures of those they meet in real life.

¶ Novel: 70,000 words | Genre tags (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

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