The Casino Kid

by Roger Frederick

A plectrum and spliff filled tale of two guitarists struggling against psychotic bass players, neurotic parents and dodgy music dealers as they climb the slippery slop to rock n’ roll nirvana.

Excerpt:-

The audience is really buzzing tonight, I mean really buzzing – all ten thousand of them jumping and dancing like the floor’s on fire. And as the band approaches the end of the second chorus where my guitar solo is due to start, I feel that collective buzz fizzing through my bones, fuelling my body with more power than the fifty thousand watt mother of a PA system that towers behind me. And I know, just know, as I stomp on the overdrive that it’s going to be one of those perfect guitar solos, maybe the perfect solo.

As the last beat of the last bar of the chorus ends, I guess I feel how a surfer must feel just before catching the perfect wave or how a footballer feels just before scoring the perfect goal. It’s as if the moment your board touches the spray, or your boot touches the ball or (in my case) your fingers touch the strings, you sense that this is the big one – that elusive moment when everything seems to flow with effortless clarity.

As I launch into the solo my confidence is justified. Tonight my White Falcon is blessed by the Great God Gretsch and the twin reverberating saints of Fender. But this is no easy ride. The feedback is right on the edge. Bending the strings is like balancing barefoot on barb wire. One false move and this beautiful moment could end in an ugly scream. But I’m hanging in there floating down to the front of the stage, grinning at ten thousand ecstatic faces.

Suddenly, one face, a promising brunette in a sea of insipid blondes, catches my eye. And I give her my most intimidating rock god stare. But instead of looking bashfully away as they usually do. She stares defiandy back at me. And I know tonight she’s the one. And suddenly it’s as if I’m playing just for her.

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by Wes Boyd

Desperate Journey Nanci spent every cent she had and burned all the gas in her tank to escape Chicago and find her mother and her sister. She finds them, only to discover that both of them are now Colorado River raft guides, and that her mother is about to get remarried — in the depths of the Grand Canyon. With no other choices, Nanci goes along on the trip — two weeks in the middle of the most awesome scenery on the planet, a place that can and does change lives.

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Canyon Fires – 29 Chapters (eSerial / Webnovel – HTML)

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Cadet’s Dream

by Toby Griffen

In a surreal dream, the protagonist finds himself at a ball in Charleston’s Hibernian Hall, where he witnesses the suffering of the Lady in the Shiny Green Dress. When she looks to him imploringly, he awakes in a panic and realizes that he must come to an understanding of her anguish before he can do … whatever it is he is supposed to do. In an extended vision, he descends into what he perceives to be Charleston – or rather, some alternative Charleston – of thirty years earlier, and he joins his soul with that of a distraught cadet returning at midnight to The Acropolis, The Military Academy of the South. Here, Cadet undertakes a journey through love and loss, isolation and unity, and confrontation with religious and political bigotry.

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by Wes Boyd

A snake crawls out of a bathroom drain, and a woman kills it with her hair dryer…That’s all it takes to set townspeople, media, crooked environmentalists, a country music singer, the federal government and a bunch of dogsledders to getting at each other’s throats. Of course, nothing’s quite normal in Spearfish Lake!

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by Michael G Kimber

Margaret Marshall and her fourteen year old son Jonathon face some tough decisions, when Bill, her husband and his father, is killed in a car crash.

Jonathon has taken his first tentative steps across the bridge between boyhood and manhood; perilous enough without the added trauma of bereavement.

Margaret is embarking on an equally precarious journey; that between an undervalued mother and downtrodden wife; through widowhood, and then to lover.

Follow them as they take their first steps into a new world, and see how their actions, and of those with whom they are in daily contact, can and do, impact on each others lives.

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