Monday, July 27, 2015

Hot Flash Fiction: Romantic Vignettes

Antoinette swung in a hammock strung precariously close to the ledge of Juniper Canyon, a deep palmed crevice abutting the family estate. She gazed down the valley towards the Tijuana Sloughs, twirling a strand of loopy hair around her finger, while dangling one of her favored Mudd Levy's by a toe. The faded brown and blue plaid she knew derived from Clan Gordon's formal tartan. She knew, too, that the burly blokes supported Wallace, as well as The Bruce, when he finally came...

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Home Depot Gigolo

Hot Flash Fiction: Romantic Vignettes

9 mins ·

"Are you sure it's not some sort of theft protection program you've got going on here?" Jen asked the managers clustered together at the kitchen design center. They stared at one another, then back at her, blankly.

"Not at all," said one of them, frowning.

The man seemed offended by her suggestion that Home Depot was now using men, posing as gigolos, to prevent housewives from pocketing paintbrushes and other small items into their purses.

Saturday, July 25, 2015

HotFlashFiction: Romantic Vignettes and Other Titillating Tales

Short steamy, sultry, sad and insane stories about love and those entangled in it.

It's a Great Weekend to Read Some Short Shorts!

Just sending out a friendly reminder that lots of my shorts, (under 30 minute fictional stories), are on free promotion at Amazon this weekend. I'd appreciate some reviews! Thanks for supporting an indie author.

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Poetry by Ruth Newell currently on FREE promotion! Reviews on my Amazon author's page would be greatly appreciated.

Monday, July 13, 2015

The Sultan's Vizier:

A Short Story (Tales of Half Truths Collection Book 13)

Taken from his homeland by raiding Tartars to pay the Khan's blood tax, seven year old Pasa Bajica was enslaved and forcibly recruited into the Sultan's Janissary Corps. As an old man, he had outlived two sultan's and was now serving as Suleiman's adviser. Weighted by knowledge and by experience, he becomes a man verging on revolution when Suleiman takes his sons into battle. Rizayya, Sultanas of the Eastern Empire, devises a brutal strategy in effort to save her people from destruction at the hands of the advancing Ottoman army. In the Sultan's absence, the fearless Lieutenant Stephen Decatur out wits a nest of slave-catching pirates and leads the American fleet to attack Suleiman's fortresses throughout the Mediterranean.