Category: ya reads
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Rules of the Roadtrip:
While traversing the vast regions of the USA on a month long roadtrip in the 70s, my parents had a lot of rules of the road. You can only eat at McDonald’s, Howard Johnson’s or Burger King. My mom believed big corporations and franchises were always reliable. She had no interest in local flavor. We…
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I Left A Lot in San Francisco: Tales from the Backseat Episode 7
The difference between being a preteen and a child on a family vacation is like the comparing Mount Everest to the dirt hill kids jump their bikes over. It’s a continental divide. During my preteen years, I wanted to be cool and strived to seem grown-up. And I definitely did not want to act like…
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Shockwave
Author’s Note: Here is a mini sneak peek at a beginning scene from upcoming book 4 in the Timeless American Historical Romance series of books, scheduled to release May 30th and available for preorder at the cover link below. I write romance and mystery books under the name Suzanne Rudd Hamilton. This book features a…
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The First Encounter
Author’s Note: This is an exerpt from An Emerald Homecoming, an upcoming novel from A Timeless American Historical Romance Series. Each day Jackie biked to the beach alone. She sat on the sand, gazing into the infinite golden horizon, searching for the meaning of what happened with her parents’ death by looking into the clouds…
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UnHappily Ever After
You may be familiar with my story. I was a poor orphan forced into servitude, and then, with a twist of fate, fell in love with a prince to live happily ever after. That was the real story. The authors embellished it with fanciful inventions of fairy godmothers and pumpkins turning into carriages. That was…
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Darkness Within
Author’s Note: It’s hard to watch someone you love suffer, especially if you can’t do anything to help. This is from a parent’s viewpoint. The dark sky loomed, relentlessly following every step, blocking every turn. I never thought I could feel so powerless. How could the world twist so out of control that it would…
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Darkness Within
The dark sky loomed, relentlessly following every step, blocking every turn. I never thought I could feel so powerless. How could the world twist so out of control that it would target my child? I’ve always trailed my own unconventional path, but I can’t imagine what it feels like to be trapped in your own…
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From All the Unknown
Author’s Note: If you’ve ever been bullied or felt to feel less than… this one’s for you. You don’t really see me. You only judge what you believe. You never care to know the real me; Do I not feel? Can I have no pain? You don’t know, you just want to feel big again…
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New Diary, New Year
I’m calling freshman year in high school the great awakening because I hope it will wake me up to a new life, like the dawn of a horizon with endless possibilities. My high school is a funnel of nine smaller grade schools from three towns combining into one school of nearly four thousand kids. That…
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Friday Fright
Excited about Halloween, siblings Chris, Sarah and Nathan honored their annual haunted house tradition. Since childhood, they visited one haunted house to start the season off with a bang. Each year they choose a haunted house to fit their mood. As youngsters, they liked ones similar to a Disney theme park with bright lights and…
Growing UP Books by Suzanne Rudd 