My family believed in trees, Christmas, and the land.             We Campbells grew Christmas trees on two hundred acres of lush rain-soaked Oregon farmland.  We wholesaled them in a mammoth cutting operation that ran all autumn, and managed a U-cut business complete with hotdog stand and gift shop during the months of November and December.  [...]

Children of the Fog | Prologue & Chapter One     Today marks the final day of Cheryl Kaye Tardif’s month long ‘Touring the World’ virtual book tour. Thank you to everyone for following along, reading and commenting on posts, and buying Cheryl’s latest novel Whale Song or her other novels Divine Intervention and The River.   As the grand [...]

Children of the Fog | Chapter Two     prologue May 14th, 2006 She was ready to die. She sat at the kitchen table–a nearly empty bottle of Philip’s precious red wine in one hand, a loaded gun in the other. Staring at the foreign chunk of metal, she willed it to vanish. But it didn’t. Sadie checked the gun and noted [...]

They are riding on a bus to Chichen Itza, Cass and her family, into the heart of the Yucatan, into the heart of the dark jungle, and their tour guide is unsuccessfully trying to teach them a Mayan greeting. “Ba’ax ka wa’alik,” Gabriel says, standing in the aisle at the front of the bus. He is [...]

  June, 2007 I had been summoned to Barnyard’s and that only meant one thing - fun and laughter with precious friends. This time it was a relaxing barbecue hosted by my timeless friend Dorothy as a celebration for her youngest son who was leaving home for a life of independent bliss. David had grown into a fine [...]

 The Arc of Time is a new take on an ancient tale and is dedicated to Lari Davidson. Lari accepted The Arc of Time for publication in Ultra! published by Aardworlf Publishing. This was to be the Premiere Issue of a benefit magazine for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Unfortunately, just shy of having it all ready to [...]

I gaze out the window of my new apartment and wonder if the trees will ever turn. Or will the leaves just wither, brown and drop to the ground in anonymous heaps? My mind strays home to Quebec, a landscape where the recurrence of change lies under the sway of cold and drought, blossom and [...]

Welcome to Nameless Grace. Here you will find some of the brightest authors to ever grace the literary scene. I am Karen Mason of Starfire World Syndicate, and I’ll be your host on this incredible journey.  Join me in welcoming these beings of light as they glide over the trails of your heart.  The authors appear in this showcase because they [...]