A Girl of the Paper Sky (10 page)
Greetings from (somewhere in) Iraq.
Well, I made it here safe and sound. I can’t tell you where (the army won’t let me) but I’m on the ground. My tour has officially started.
Operation Desert Storm. So far-all desert, no storm.
We’ve been on two convoy runs so far, and another one is scheduled in a little while, so it will have to be a short letter.
I did want to tell you about the craziest thing that happened yesterday, my first day in our base camp.
Me and two other soldiers were sent to pick up some supplies from another camp about five miles away. We were in a deuce and a half (2 1/2 ton) truck cruising down this dirt road in the middle of nowhere when I saw something up ahead lying in the road.
I had the driver stop the truck while I got out to look. It was a cat, if you can believe it, in the middle of the desert. Okay, bear with me now, because here’s where it gets kinda weird.
As I was walking toward it, I could swear I felt you behind me. It really felt like you were standing there. I turned around but I only saw the truck and my buddies looking at me like I was crazy. Anyhow I walked up to the cat. Are you ready for this? It was made of pieces of colored glass, you know, like a church window or something.
Now you’re going to think I had heat stroke because when I went to pick it up it disappeared and in its place I saw four prongs barely visible in the ground.
I called it in and we waited until a demolition team arrived.
It was a land mine and the team found others scattered about along the road.
I want you to know that I’m fine. I almost didn’t tell you about this because I know how nervous you are about me being here, but, hey, I’m going to be alright. It appears I have an angel watching over me.
Gotta run. They’re calling for us. I’ll write again as soon as I can.
Tell your parents I said hi.
I love you and I miss you, Rosie.
Dave
ALSO BY RANDY MIXTER
SCARLET AND GOLD
The Pirate Wars have begun.
Alliances are being formed. Treachery is in the wind. And danger hides in the shadows.
Rachel Cain knew that marrying Morgan Reid, a soldier of fortune, would lead to a life of danger, but when a deserted pirate ship is discovered in the Great Eastern Sea, she is plunged into an adventure that will test her courage like no other.
From battles at sea to a rescue on an island fortress, Rachel and Morgan face peril and betrayal by those whom they know and trust. In this game of deception and double-crosses, no man, or woman, is safe from harm, and only the strongest will survive.
SUMMER’S PASSING
Strange things are happening in Port Grace, Florida.
Doug Monroe and Rebecca Carlyle are young and in love. He met her when he saved her life, but now he may need to save her again.
Someone or something, wants her and there is no place to hide, and no safe haven from the memories of her troubled past.
Before the summer ends, the past and present will meet. Will Doug be able to save the woman he loves one last time? Or will an evil from long ago take her from him forever?
SARAH OF THE MOON
The Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in 1967. Alex Conley, a part-time writer for a Baltimore newspaper, is dispatched to chronicle the events occurring there. It is June of 1967, and the summer of love is in full swing.
Alone, in this strange and magical place, he meets a girl named Sarah, a free spirit who is as mysterious as she is beautiful. What are the secrets of her past? Why does she dance each night under the light of the moon?
These are just a few of the puzzles Alex needs to solve in the short time he has in that city.
SORCERER
Keira Merlin’s father is in trouble. He told her that in a dream. He has an artifact that others want; evil people, who will stop at nothing to own it. Keira knows where her father hides, deep in a mountain’s forest, but she needs help to reach him. She needs Jake Stanton.
FBI agent Jake Stanton is a wanted man. He is wanted by the same individuals who search for Keira’s father, Silvanus Merlin, his partner in a previous case, and the man who once saved his life.
Together, Stanton and Keira will journey to a place dark and dangerous, a place where an amazing discovery awaits and a secret that may change the world as we know it.
MORNING STAR
A Child. A Horse. A Miracle.
Eight year old Dannie Walker is fighting for her life. Her doctors have told her father she has an incurable disease. All hope is lost. Or is it?
A mysterious horse has come to the Walker ranch. A horse that may have mystical powers.
His name is Morning Star and he might be Dannie’s only hope.
SWAN LOCH
Bodies are disappearing in New England.
Danger has come to the peaceful New England town of Swan Loch, Maine, in the form of an elusive killer who strikes quickly and then vanishes after each murder, leaving no bodies behind.
Police Chief Chris Hayward, with the help of FBI agent Jake Stanton, tries to solve a crime that seems unsolvable, and now it is personal. Hayward’s wife has become the killer’s latest victim.
When all hope seems lost, a young girl wanders into Swan Loch. She claims the wind brought her there, and she has a message for Chris Hayward. Your wife is alive, and I know where to find her.
And so a journey begins, a journey that may, or may not, return Chris to the only woman he ever loved. The quest will not be easy. They will go to a place far away. A place where all mysteries will be solved, and where evil has found the perfect hiding place.
They must hurry, because in less than twelve hours the killer will strike again. And this time none will be saved.
LETTERS FROM LONG BINH
Awarded Honorable Mention in the Memoir category by the Military Writers Association of America.
I boarded the plane to Vietnam at exactly midnight on January 1st, 1967. I was a 19-year-old soldier with pen and paper in hand. I began to write.
“Letters from Long Binh gives the reader an honest appraisal of the everyday life of an MP in Vietnam. Sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, but always gripping, the book is written with a deep sense of respect for his fellow brothers-in-arms in a war-torn country.” -
Lou Fantauzzi
- Vietnam 1966-67
THE BOYS OF NORTHWOOD
“What a great piece of writing and remembering. Insert your name, some friends and places, and take a memorable trip back in time!” -
Mike Warren
SHORT STORIES
RED MOON
The moon is rising, and a killer prowls the night.
Jake Stanton, FBI Agent and former member of the U.S. Army’s elite Omega force, is dispatched to Virginia to find the murderer known only as the Red Moon Killer.
Together with Silvanus Merlin, a man with extraordinary talents, they track the elusive killer who attacks only on nights of the full moon.
They must hurry, for soon the moon will be full once more, and the killer will strike again.
ETERNAL
My short story about loss and the possibility of hope,
Eternal
, was originally published by Sleeping Cats Books in The Storm Is Coming Anthology.
THE ROCKING CHAIR LADY
The Rocking Chair Lady is a fictional short story based on a young boy’s fascination with an elderly lady’s stories of her adventurous, and sometimes magical life.
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