Stories by Claudia

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Recap of the Beginning and character summary
CHAPTER NINETY
Saturday morning — 1:20 A.M.
Sandy opened the door to her condo apartment and took a deep breath. She’d always loved the smell of her very own home. Even after being closed up for so many weeks, her home still smelled safe. That’s how she had felt [...]

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CHAPTER FOUR
Raz threw himself on top of Alex. They fell backwards in her chair just before a particularly violent explosion. The lights in the room flickered, sparked then went out. The room shook. Every chair fell over. The mortar made a tinkling sound as it fell onto the concrete floor. A portion of [...]

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CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE
Friday evening — 6:15 P.M.
Delphie almost collapsed with relief when Johansen released her. In the last few hours, he had been brutal with her. She wasn’t sure if the old man was getting careless or simply didn’t care if he hurt her. At one point, she [...]

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CHAPTER THREE
Raz hesitated. Alex reassured him by putting her hand on his elbow. He looked into her face then nodded. They followed the man toward the forest.
“That’s Perses.”
The apparition of Alex’s best-friend Sergeant Jesse Abreu appeared beside her. Alex nodded her head slightly. As usual, Jesse continued in Spanish:
“The Weasel is completely freaked out, [...]

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CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHT
Friday evening — 5:45 P.M.
Jacob stepped through the doorway and listened. He could hear Valerie screaming in the kitchen. Valerie’s pain and terror threatened to overwhelm his little brother self. He had to stay focused. He pushed away everything other than his singular focus – Johansen.
Cloaking [...]

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CHAPTER TWO
Two months later
Monday early-morning
March 24 – 4:30 A.M. MDT
Denver, Colorado
“It’s weird, isn’t it?”
Alex lifted her head from the pillow to kiss her husband, John. Like most mornings, they started the day in each other’s embrace.
“What’s weird?” she asked.
“How everything can be the same.” His British accented words were punctuated with quick thrusts [...]

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CHAPTER EIGHTY-SEVEN
Friday morning — 5:25 A.M.
Dressed in her pajamas, Jill ran down the stairs from the loft. Her bare feet made a tight drumbeat as she pounded past the landing. Slipping around the corner, she almost ran over Honey. Honey had been wheeling at top speed toward [...]

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Today is the first day of my novel, Learning to Stand. Learning to Stand is the second book in the Alex the Fey thriller series.  The novel will appear one chapter at a time for the rest of the year. Learning to Stand is available in paperback at Amazon books or through our store.
Enjoy!

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