Linda Mooney

Six Short Stories Celebrating the Season

Stories Included are:
BARNEY - She looked forward everyday for him to come by. Then came the one day when he didn't.
GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE - All it took was one missing ingredient to melt the heart of a lonely old man.
AN EXPLOSIVE COMBINATION - In a post-apocalyptic future, a group of survivors reminisce about their first Thanksgiving after that climactic event.
THE LEG - Doug was

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Tuffy Claus and Babs are back, and despite Dominik's protests, his wife is coming along for the ride. Being previously in law enforcement, she won't be playing the obedient housewife while waiting for him to get home. No, she'll be out chasing the bad guys as well. But can she handle the heart-wrenching jobs she'll have to take on?

Their newest case tests Babs to her limits, making her wonder if she's really cut out for this. Short

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After purchasing a beautiful and unique antique angel tree topper, Marq North is excited to gift it to his long-time girlfriend, but he should've known she appreciates a bigger price tag more than sentimental value. Why has he wasted years of his life trying to buy her love? When she tells him she's ending their relationship right before the holidays, he's almost...relieved.

Ione and her fellow archangels are used to the rise in demonic

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Being called to become part of a Gaspiel is an honor, a chance to serve in the war against the Fol'Minites and to protect the K'Stollians' world. Four men are required to form the four-point star, each one controlling a different element of their warship-navigation, weapons, engine, and the captain. But the most important element and hardest to find is their fifth, their Visl-their strength. When Ensign Sienna Pratt finds out she is called to be a...

Alligator, Bear, Cougar, Deer, Eagle They found each other by accident. They became a team for life. While preparing for a hurricane that's heading straight for the Bag It and Tag It lodge, William "Brew" Estes makes a last-minute run to grab supplies. While there, he heads off a robbery and saves the day...all in a day's work for the former Marine. Celeste Hart is exactly where she never wanted to be. When the robbery goes wrong, she knows this...

She reaches into minds to discover the truth. But this time, what she finds could get her killed. Wrynter Poe is both blessed and cursed with a unique ability. She can't read minds, but she can follow a person's memories of an event they witnessed. Which is why she works as a special agent for the FBI in helping local law enforcement agencies solve crimes. But this gift comes with a price. She cannot touch the bare skin of another person, for fear...

It's said a witch without a familiar is considered lost, but a warlock without a familiar is deemed soulless. Yordan Squires has a rather lonely existence. A warlock capable of time travel, he'd resigned himself to a life of solitude long ago. When he finds someone possessing the magicks like himself, she could be the answer to his loneliness. But it's too dangerous and selfish of him to ask her to accompany him on his travels. Ravenelle is a sprite,...

Forget everything you think you know about mass murderers and crimes of passion, because now you're going to learn the truth. People don't decide one day to go out and kill as many people as they can, or wake up one morning, grab the nearest shotgun or axe, and proceed to hack apart their loved ones. They do it because they're infected with a jewel, a creature of intense beauty and danger. Once the jewel takes over a host's body, that person dies,...

Sick of the same day in, day out, soul-sucking job, Giles Noft decides it's time for a change. Starting a new career as a voice actor with Voce Audio, he realizes it's also the perfect opportunity to narrate his own published book after hours. Renting studio space in the evenings, Giles plans to have his book finished in a couple weeks. What he didn't expect was to find a companion while in the recording studio, or for that companion to completely...

This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest. In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor...