Can a crow predict murder? Which Criss Cross County residents will die before the year is over? Once upon a time there was a girl whose father lived in a town where a very bad thing happened. Growing up, the girl learned about the bad thing by hiding around corners and listening to her parents talk to their friends. If her parents suspected she was near, their voices would drop to whispers and then go silent until the girl left the room. It is those whispers and those moments of silence that have haunted the girl all her life. When she was a teenager she had a conversation with a boy who felt...

I believe in natural medicine. Food. Herbs. Spices. But the biggest thing I believe is whatever a person fears is what is going to stay with them. If they fear it, it, whatever it is, whatever disease it is, it will find them. That is the core of my belief and the greatest lesson I learned from dealing with cancer. If you love something, whatever you are experiencing is going to change you and your situation in such a loving way, anything negative that shows up will be unable to survive.

Love and sadness, and magic and madness make up this collection of ten minute stories. Meet the folks of Tinta Town. See what they feel. Learn what they think. Peek into their lives. Who knows? Maybe one of them is like your neighbor down the road...or maybe they're more like you? After you read this you'll never look at your neighbors the same way. And if your neighbor's read this, they'll never look at you the same way

Reading these short stories is like riding a lightning bolt. Over before you know it, but seared into your memory forever. Flash sequels and the cast of EENY MEENY CRIMINY CROW. I introduce you to the moments when their lives flash before their eyes. This is what one reader had to say about The Criss Cross County Sequels: "Shoot, lady. I read something like this, and it makes me want to be a much better writer than I am. Once I got into it, it was frickin' brilliant."