Get my eBook FREE through 5/22/2014! “Darkling Drake” is currently ranked #15 in FREE Fantasy!! Book Description: Toni Drake is a loner...

Congratulations to all those bloggers who successfully completed the April A to Z Blogging Challenge!  Sadly, I burned out about halfway...

The wind had picked up in the last hour.  What was once a friendly ruffling of the boy’s sandy, blonde hair quickly became an insistent...

“This is what you get for listening to your hormones,” she growled to herself. Rolling her eyes, she loudly proclaimed in a mocking...

“Ugh!  Get that filthy thing off the porch!”  Jessica squealed.  In one smooth motion, she hopped back behind Addie, and glared daggers...

She crouched by the window, and separated the wooden blinds just enough to allow her to observe the man loitering at the end of her...

“Hey Stan,” the plump woman seated at the front desk called over her shoulder.  “I got a live one for ya.  200 East Elm.  The lady on the...

Please don’t let there be blood.  Please don’t let there be blood.  Please don’t let there be blood. Beatris Hammonds chanted the mantra...

Melody stopped short when she saw it, skidding her cruising bicycle to a halt.  “No.  No, no, no.  There’s another way around, right?”...

“There it is again,” Aaron whispered to his friend, Joey.  “See it?  The stupid thing’s just sitting there staring at us.  Throw a rock...

The bone-white sliver of moon was barely an inch above the line where the Earth kissed the nighttime sky when Bert Tucker awoke with a...

“Did you ever notice that Rosie won’t ever choose anything?” Joseph asked his mom and dad as he shot an accusatory glare at his little...

Opal Perkins bustled around the farmhouse nervously searching for anything that she might have missed.  The place had to be perfect for...

Cayden knew he wasn’t alone in the empty room.  Knew it like he knew his own name.  It wasn’t a ‘feeling’ or a ‘belief.’  It was fact. He...

The sounds of the forest slowly blossomed in her ears.  Crickets chirped.  Frogs croaked.  The wind ruffled the newly uncovered Spring...

My very first blog posts were published in an alphabetical sequence, mostly because I had no idea what to write about.  Since then, I’ve...

During the holiday season, it seems we all end up having to do some extra traveling, either to visit friends and family or to take...

I’ve recently saved up enough extra discretionary cash to buy myself a FitBit Flex.   So far, it has proven to be a good motivator.  In...

In an effort to make up for the lack of activity on the TotallyTawn WordPress blog, I offer a short story.  I hope you enjoy it. Champion...

A blast from this day two years ago. Happy 52nd birthday, Mr. President!