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This week’s episode features Chapter Nine of Black Brick. Here is an excerpt from the show: THE BLACK BAG HAD a large zipper at the top for the main compartment. There were several pockets on the side. After I checked the outside pockets and found them empty, I eased back the large zipper, wondering if […]

This week’s episode features Chapter Eight of Black Brick. Here is an excerpt from the show: THE CITY PASSED BY as I looked out the train window and tried to relax. The morning news coming out of San Diego said the explosion at the Kurt home was a gas leak, but I knew better.  Four […]

This week’s episode features Chapter Seven of Black Brick. Here is an excerpt from the show: IT TOOK CONSIDERABLE CONTROL to not wolf down my food when our orders arrived. I was famished and bit into the hamburger, swallowed, and took another bite. This was the first chance to eat since some stale peanuts I’d […]

This week’s episode features Chapter Six of Black Brick. Here is an excerpt from the show: I REMAINED IN MY seat on the airplane when the seatbelt sign turned off and the pilot announced we could get up. Those around us stood and began to remove luggage from overhead bins. Beside me, Shannon was flipping […]

This week’s episode features Chapter Five of Black Brick. Here is an excerpt from the show: I WAS WAITING FOR Jason Kurt’s last computer to power down when there was a sound at the doorway to Kurt’s bedroom. I turned from the bank of computer screens expecting to find Shannon but instead recognized Lisa, Jason […]

This week’s episode features Chapter Four of Black Brick. Here is an excerpt from the show: THE FROTHY WATER REACHED out to lick the tip of my shoe, but my foot wasn’t down on the sand long enough for it to matter. The pounding of my legs on the beach seemed to be in harmony […]

This week’s episode features Chapter Three of Black Brick. Here is an excerpt from the show: THE SUN PEEKED OUT of the clouds as Shannon and I walked onto Kingstone Campus; it was nice to have a brief moment of heat to temper the cold of the early spring. As the sun disappeared again, I dug […]

This week’s episode features Chapters One and Two of Black Brick. Here is an excerpt from the show: I COULDN’T SILENCE THE alarm bells ringing in my head as Bruce Andrews and his date walked out of the restaurant. They were heading to the ballet but weren’t going to make it. With a glance towards […]

This week’s episode features Chapter Thirty Two and the Epilogue of War of the Fathers. Click here to download it or press play below. Here is an excerpt from the show: After exiting the Arches, they found themselves emerging from the rock face of another mountain and Jorad looked up when he felt the rising […]

This week’s episode features Chapter Thirty One of War of the Fathers. Click here to download it or press play below. Here is an excerpt from the show: Adar gripped his blaster as he peeked his head over the windowsill and watched the street below him fill with Hunwei. It could have been five minutes, […]