A Moonlight Surprise

A Moonlight Surprise

Slipping from tree to bush, I walked as softly as my boots allowed. It’s funny how weird things looked at night, how lonely and hushed, as if the familiar landscape were an alien planet with no life on it except mine. I stopped in the shadow of the farmhouse and listened; no sound of pickax […]

Waiting for the Other Shoe

I got up far too early this morning. Maybe I’m like my dad in that respect. He was a true believer in early to bed, early to rise. In fact, he went to bed with the chickens and thought everyone else should too. His stubborn children, as well as his wife, didn’t agree. Dad had […]

What Happened in the Moonlight?

  The Murder By Moonlight contest runs through Friday. See my Facebook page for the easy directions. Here’s another excerpt to whet your appetite! We sat silently for a few minutes. I tried to absorb the morning’s drama. I felt as if I had stepped onto a moving sidewalk. I was being carried along somewhere, […]

An Apparition?

An Apparition?

Have you read it yet? Murder By Moonlight, newest Ned McNeil cozy mystery. It’s available on Amazon. It’s free with Kindle Unlimited. Thunder growled, ever closer. Those empty rooms of the house must surely be too dark for a proper photographing session, which was a relief, because I didn’t relish the idea of being inside […]

Lazy Summer

Lazy Summer

Lazy Summer by Blanche Manos Slumber softly, summer cat,  Dozing in the sunbeams, Needing neither rhyme nor reason To be one with the season, Tawny, yawny, warm and mellow, Sun-drenched days and cat of yellow, Loving lazy daydreams.

Inheritance

Inheritance

I’m delving into my ancestry and, let me tell you, it’s fun and it’s also eye-opening. Trying to find these people from whom I resulted is like trying to solve a mystery. Sometimes it takes a whole lot of sleuthing and it’s the sort of on-going mystery that doesn’t seem to have an end.  An […]