A Sudden Outbreak of Magic: Chapter Twenty

Today brings you the continuation of the online serialization of my contemporary fantasy novel A Sudden Outbreak of Magic.

Of course, you can always snag an ebook or trade paperback from the links at the bottom of this chapter if you don’t want to wait.

In this chapter, Azure gets in everyone’s face (and raises up some personal demons), while Jeroan… well, Jeroan makes a choice that some people (like his sister) would call a Very Bad Decision…

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Rolling Down the Road(s)

So. We’ve been bike riding.

After saving up, planning, and doing lots of research online and at various bike places (as well as picking the brains of our biking pals), Elizabeth and I decided to take the plunge and get ourselves some bikes. Of course, when you get a bike, you also have to buy a helmet, a tire pump, and water bottles. Not to mention a hitch and rack to carry the bikes from place to place.

Ouch. Trying not to think about the sticker shock.

But you know what? It was all worth it. At last we can keep up with our two boys on their bikes!

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A Sudden Outbreak of Magic: Chapter Nineteen

Today we have Chapter Nineteen of my serialization of my contemporary fantasy novel A Sudden Outbreak of Magic.

I’ll be adding two chapters a week right here, or you can snag an ebook from the links at the bottom of this chapter if you don’t want to wait.

In this chapter, Kelley plays the game of Gather Up the Aging Sorcerers as she tries to find her brother and her other friends at the same time…

Also, the serialization wraps up next week(!) as we do a chapter a day to get to the big, explosive finale. Years in the making, I tell you. Years.

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A Sudden Outbreak of Magic: Chapter Eighteen

Now we’re rolling along here, with Chapter Eighteen of my serialization of my contemporary fantasy novel A Sudden Outbreak of Magic.

I’ll be adding two chapters a week right here, or you can snag an ebook from the links at the bottom of this chapter if you don’t want to wait.

In this chapter, Kelley gets caught in the middle of two old, old friends reuniting, and she has to once more be the voice of reason in the face of magic…

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Trees and Saplings

This photo (taken with my phone, which I then retouched with Instagram), was taken at Drew’s baseball “tryouts” last week, where he got to field some grounders and swing at half a dozen balls from the pitching machine.

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