Serials

Out with the Trash 31 by Sand Pilarski (Aug 28, 2017)

It doesn't matter that the skunk back-tracked Emily to her house; and who cares if the skunk sprayed the neighbor's cat? Emily has only begun to imagine the solutions she needs...

Out with the Trash 30 by Sand Pilarski (Aug 21, 2017)

So much is now so clear about what went on at New Year's; but the journey isn't over yet...

Out with the Trash 29 by Sand Pilarski (Aug 14, 2017)

Much makes sense to Emily now, but there are still connections to make...

Out with the Trash 28 by Sand Pilarski (Aug 7, 2017)

Was a car wreck the best part of Emily's week?

Out with the Trash 27 by Sand Pilarski (Jul 31, 2017)

Her latest round of espionage lands Emily and her car in an icy ditch. Can she accept a rescue?

The Scholarship Girl 12 by Abigail George (Jul 31, 2017)

Conclusion. "...Complicated, an empty vessel, envious of beauty like any woman, of youth, of the girl, of children in childhood..."

Out with the Trash 26 by Sand Pilarski (Jul 24, 2017)

Things just don't make sense. And while Emily has to admit she's been deluded, there still ought to be a way to put all the clues together...

The Scholarship Girl 11 by Abigail George (Jul 24, 2017)

"...Why do the rich get richer in South Africa and the poor get poorer in South Africa on a daily basis?..."

Out with the Trash 25 by Sand Pilarski (Jul 17, 2017)

Mark is still keeping his real purpose of his trip to Michigan secret, and Emily follows suit by keeping secret all that she has found out about him. Life has changed...

The Scholarship Girl 10 by Abigail George (Jul 17, 2017)

"... but I do know this: African writers write in blood..."

Out with the Trash 24 by Sand Pilarski (Jul 10, 2017)

Shaken by her discoveries, pushed to her emotional limits, Emily grabs her wooden spoon and takes a step -- is it in the right direction?

The Scholarship Girl 09 by Abigail George (Jul 10, 2017)

"...I already feel a fraud as if nature is ganging up on me. This is not me. This is not who I am or want to be..."

The Scholarship Girl 08 by Abigail George (Jul 3, 2017)

"...I began to see myself in other writers' and poets' work..."

Out with the Trash 23 by Sand Pilarski (Jul 3, 2017)

Confronted with seeming proof of Mark's misbehavior, Emily must begin to make her way past it, or through it, or...?

The Scholarship Girl 07 by Abigail George (Jun 26, 2017)

"...a quaint, inventive state of mind like animals captured and paraded in zoos or portraits of every generation..."

Out with the Trash by Sand Pilarski (Jun 26, 2017)

Mark is gone, visiting his parents in Michigan. Back in California, Emily and her investigative partner Spoon are going to search for more clues...

Out with the Trash 21 by Sand Pilarski (Jun 19, 2017)

With Mark gone halfway across the country on his mysterious errand, Emily has had some time to take stock of her life. There is no choice but to keep moving forward...

The Scholarship Girl 06 by Abigail George (Jun 19, 2017)

"...I remember how I could see pieces of blue sky from the bars on my window..."

The Scholarship Girl 05 by Abigail George (Jun 12, 2017)

"...the harmonic cultures that exist outside of my own..."

Out with the Trash 20 by Sand Pilarski (Jun 12, 2017)

Alternating between dismay and fury, Emily begins to take stock of what her life has become...

Out with the Trash 19 by Sand Pilarski (Jun 5, 2017)

The photo that Emily has found is troubling, but not completely damning. If it is another piece of the puzzle, then Emily doesn't know how it fits...

The Scholarship Girl 04 by Abigail George (Jun 5, 2017)

"... Without pain, I was blinded. I could not write..."

Out with the Trash 18 by Sand Pilarski (May 29, 2017)

Unnerved by the prospect of an FBI investigation, Emily must still face the ongoing mysterious behavior of her husband...

The Scholarship Girl 03 by Abigail George (May 29, 2017)

"...the image that I have of love in my imagination..."

Out with the Trash 17 by Sand Pilarski (May 22, 2017)

Emily has made things easy for her husband to continue his mysterious plans. Is she right about her speculations?

The Scholarship Girl 02 by Abigail George (May 22, 2017)

"...doing laps in a swimming pool princely blue..."

Out with the Trash 16 by Sand Pilarski (May 15, 2017)

Emily has rebelled and bought herself a computer, a new secret to match Mark's secret communications with the university in Michigan. And she's willing to give Mark enough rope to hang himself...

The Scholarship Girl by Abigail George (May 15, 2017)

Small things, beginnings in the frame of a child ... where do all the little footsteps lead?

Out with the Trash 15 by Sand Pilarski (May 8, 2017)

Once words are said, they are out there in the universe, echoing forever, and you can't put them back in your mouth. Maybe Mark should have remembered that and kept his trap shut...

Out with the Trash 14 by Sand Pilarski (May 1, 2017)

Mark now knows his dwarf is a phony, and he's pretty mad about it, but Emily still wants to find out what's up with the Michigan connection...