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Contemporary Fiction

Free Holidays Stories from Jason A. Adams and Kari Kilgore!

December 17, 2020 By SpiralPublishing

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Our Thursday Escape for this week is a little different, and seasonally appropriate!

Both Jason A. Adams and Kari Kilgore are delighted to return to the WMG Publishing Holiday Spectacular this year, and they’re each sharing one of their stories, free for one week only on their own websites.

It’s not too late to subscribe, and the Holiday Spectacular makes a wonderful gift with no worries about shipping!

Filed Under: News, Thursday Escapes Tagged With: Appalachian Stories, Cats, Contemporary Fantasy, Contemporary Fiction, Free Fiction, Holiday Spectacular, Holiday Stories, Japan, Jason A Adams, Kari Kilgore, Pro Sales, Romance, Short Stories, Sweet, Tales from Appalachia

Thursday Escapes: First Kiss

December 10, 2020 By SpiralPublishing

Thursday Escapes: First Kiss

Jason A. Adams sweet romance is available free on this site for one week only!

Who kisses first?

Amy Holbrook: a hometown lawyer who loves helping her neighbors.

Tony Stanley: recently returned from Atlanta and working to help his neighbors.

Two bright, self-confident entrepreneurs, thrown together by Internet security.

Pastries, bad Shakespeare, and unexpected sparks abound.

Join Amy and Tony as they move from assumptions to something more.

Check back next week for Kari’s touching tale Dawn Visitor, and Happy Reading!

Filed Under: News, Thursday Escapes Tagged With: Appalachian Stories, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Free Fiction, free stories, Jason A Adams, Romance, Sweet Romance, Thursday Escapes

Thursday Escapes: For the Love of Snarla Jane

November 12, 2020 By SpiralPublishing

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Thursday Escapes: Odds and Endings: For the Love of Snarla Jane

Jason A. Adams sweet romance is available free on this site for one week only!

Snarla Jane steals hearts.

IT night owl Bill Jackson needs sleep.

Trisha Macintyre needs a friend.

She finds that friend in her new neighbor Bill.

Maybe more, once Snarla Jane wags her way into Bill’s heart.

Will the love of Snarla Jane bring two lonely humans together?

Check back next week for Kari’s touching tale Dawn Visitor, and Happy Reading!

Filed Under: News, Thursday Escapes Tagged With: Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Diversity, Dogs, Fiction, Free Fiction, free stories, Jason A Adams, Las Vegas, Romance, Sweet Romance, Thursday Escapes

Thursday Escapes: Dirk Knight: The Case of the Rustled Ranch

October 15, 2020 By SpiralPublishing

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Thursday Escapes: Dirk Knight: The Case of the Rustled Ranch

Jason A. Adams’ Dirk Knight: The Case of the Rustled Ranch is available free on this site for one week only!

When trouble finds Barb Collins, Dirk Knight finds trouble.

A newly-minted Private Eye who throws himself into the job.

A newly-minted chef who knows good food.

Trouble drives them together in a case like no other.

Dirk’s solution promises them both sweet things to come.

Check back next week for Odds and Endings, the first story of many set in Kari’s fictional Appalachian town of Lightning Gap, Virginia, and happy reading!

Filed Under: News, Thursday Escapes Tagged With: Atlanta, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Detective, Humorous, Jason A Adams, Romance, Short Stories, Sweet Romance, Thursday Escapes

Thursday Escapes: Moulin Rouge

September 24, 2020 By SpiralPublishing

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Thursday Escapes: Moulin Rouge

Jason A. Adams’ historical fiction tale Moulin Rouge is available free on this site for one week only!

In 1955, one Las Vegas pleasure palace took a risk.

Come see the beginning of something new.

Come see a young dancer find destiny and love.

Come see a casino change the city, and the world.

Come see opening night at The Moulin Rouge.

Originally appeared in Pulphouse #7.

Check back next week for Kari Kilgore’s Sensing the Storm, a prequel short story to her post-apocalyptic fantasy series Storms of Future Past, and happy reading!

Filed Under: News, Thursday Escapes Tagged With: Civil Right, Contemporary Fiction, Historical, Jason A Adams, Las Vegas, Pro Sales, Romantic, Short Stories, Thursday Escapes, Women

Thursday Escapes: Malaya

August 27, 2020 By SpiralPublishing

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Thursday Escapes: Reflections

Jason A. Adams returns with his Appalachian tale Malaya, dedicated to all the women who won’t put up with it. Available free on this site for one week only!

How well do we ever know our spouses?

Billy Holbrook wonders sometimes.

Malaya loves him. How best to show her devotion?

Strangers in strange lands, even close to home.

Sometimes secrets shared mean secrets kept.

Check back next week for Kari Kilgore’s The Last Dragonkeeper, and happy reading!

Filed Under: News, Thursday Escapes Tagged With: Appalachian Stories, Contemporary Fiction, Free Fiction, Jason A Adams, Mystery, Revenge, Short Stories, Tales from Appalachia, Thursday Escapes, Virginia, Women

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