It’s NOT a romance. It’s not very funny, there just wasn’t much comedy to be mined for me in Andersonville Prison. It’s not even a real story
Chapter #1 of 13 of how my heroes from Trouble in Texas met and how they became so loyal to each other.
This is the beginning of Chapter 1. I wrote a novella that I’m giving away free, one chapter at a time. Chapter two went up today so read them in order!
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Vince—The Invincible
Burning hot. No way out. Surrounded by real bad people.
from the minute he pulled those filthy Raiders off that kid.
Vince knew better, but he couldn’t let that kid get beaten by a fellow Yankee.
parting threat. “A man who don’t mind his own business, don’t survive.”
die with some honor instead of live with a yellow streak down my back—like
you.” Vince knew he signed his own death warrant but he couldn’t leave the kid
to his fate.
off. But those Raiders had friends, dozens, maybe hundreds.
it wasn’t for help. He figured none was coming. And the prayer wasn’t to win
this fight. With the exception of a few Bible stories—David and some stones—Samson
and the jawbone of an ass—most of the time, when one man stood alone, that man
lost.
was time to be getting out of this place and that was about the only doorway
Vince could see. He put all his hope in the next life.
your back tonight.” A kid at least five years younger than Vince. He’d done
well against those three men but he was losing when Vince stepped in.
Get out of here.”
of being a fool. I’ll buy in.” The boy was close enough in the starless night
that Vince finally saw the black shape of him.
Name’s Luke Stone, from Texas.”
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I’m glad you’re sharing this novella, Mary. Learning more about favorite characters is always fun.
Chapter 2 just went up so there are two for you to read now.
Mary, love that you’re doing this. The hero in my current WIP spent time in Andersonville Prison. It’s years later, but he’s still affected by the experience. Your Vince describes it well. What a horrid place!
MARGARET!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SHOULD HAVE HIM BE IN MY NOVELLA!!! HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE IF MARGARET BROWNLEY’S CHARACTER MET MARY CONNEALY’S CHARACTER??????
LOL!!!!!!!! They were probably in prison at the same time. So maybe they knew each other.
Mary, that is so neat. I think you know that I spent two week-ends at Andersonville. It was truly by accident, but I’d been reading about Andersonville prison and my DH and I were on our way to Florida and we jotted north a bit to take a tour. We thought … but it was their festival weekend and they had everything from drummer boys to field hospitals, cannon and reenactment of battles. It was amazing. I stood behind a line of cannons and when they fired it was unreal. Pressure on my chest where I could hardly breathe, but it didn’t matter because the smoke choked us. The ground truly shook. Of course, we were at a safe distance behind the line, so I can just imagine how it would feel in battle. We went back the next weekend, so I could get some books on Andersonville and check some of the graves. BTW I have a book that lists everyone who is buried in the Cemetery and I believe another list of everybody who was there. I love books written by locals. Mary, thanks for jogging my memories. Hugs, Phyliss
Phyliss I would SOOOO love to do that. I need to get out from behind my computer more!!!
Loving this ! characters meeting from different booksa nd different authors, wouldn’t that be neat!
Linda