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Tilting at Windmills: Making Charlie Cry

I’ve written before about my late husband, Charlie King, but always as the hero, raconteur, and adorable spouse that he ..


Tilting at Windmills: The Brontë Award for Best Character – Part 4 … Runners-Up!

After I invented the Brontë Award, I realized that many characters who deserved to be honored had been left out. ..


Tilting at Windmills: The Brontë Award for Best Character – Part 3 … Svengali! Dorian Gray! Harry Potter! … More

Ha! I bet you thought all Brontë Awards would be given to characters in books published before the 21st Century. ..


Tilting at Windmills: The Brontë Award for Best Character – Part 2 … Heathcliff, Rebecca, Milady …

I’m back with more recipients of the Brontë Award for Memorable Characters in a Novel. And since I named the ..


TILTING AT WINDMILLS: The Brontë Award for Best Character – Part 1 … Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, Quasimodo …

Whenever I am introduced to an unforgettable character in a novel, I find myself murmuring, “I nominate Shane (or Johnny ..


Tilting at Windmills: The Nose Knows

There I was, daydreaming in my favorite chair, when the sweet smell of lilacs wafted through the window. I sniffed ..


Tiliting at Windmills: The GPS Murder, Chapter 8

Chapter 8 of 8. See previous chapters beginning on Friday, April 12. Or check link to author archive…https://www.evesun.com/authors/31 FICTION For years, Samuel ..


Tilting at Windmills: THE GPS MURDER – Chapter 7

As Chief Upton studied Clarence Liverpool’s shark-like eyes and glared at the lawyer’s small and twisted ears, he recalled an ..


Tilting at Windmills: THE GPS MURDER – Chapter 6

After Chief Samuel Upton responded to the accusatory questions of the woman with the spiky hair, she nodded almost imperceptibly, ..


Tilting at Windmills: THE GPS MURDER – Chapter 5

During the time that (as a favor to his sister) Police Chief Samuel Upton spent in the library as a ..


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