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Five Minutes More
“I play the Five Minutes More game. Five minutes. I can stand anything for five minutes. Even my father being dead.”
D’Arcy desperately wants her father’s death to have been an accident. Then she learns the truth. Why would her father choose suicide? Why didn’t she see the signs? How will she manage alone? Then D’Arcy becomes friends with Seth. Now will things get back to normal or will she have to call on strengths she didn’t know she had to make a new kind of normal, five minutes at a time?
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for my short story, "The Frain Legacy" in Fish
Tales available from Wildside Press.
Fish Tales, The Guppy Anthology, casts a wide net across
the mystery genre, delivering thrills, chills, and gills.
This water-themed collection features locked room puzzles,
police procedurals, cozy characters and hardboiled detectives.
With a pool of motivations ranging from greed and revenge
to loyalty and justice, these stories will lure you in with
killer hooks and fishy characters.
Come on in, the water’s fine. But be careful, or
you might find yourself sleeping with the fishes.
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