{"id":94,"date":"2021-02-17T00:36:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wleebrooks.com\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2022-12-26T14:02:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T14:02:35","slug":"my-fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wleebrooks.com\/?page_id=94","title":{"rendered":"My Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wleebrooks.com\/?page_id=377\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"377\">Bad Monkey (Novella)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Hanson, an older woman recently defrauded of her life savings, is on a trip to Egypt with her son Paul when a local offers her a strange statue of a monkey that will alter her life and the world around her in ways she never could have imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wleebrooks.com\/?page_id=250\"><strong>Recess (Short Story)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Bobby is having a hard day at school. Sam has come to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wleebrooks.com\/?page_id=245\"><strong>Oleanna (Short Story)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">A Mathematics professor keeps finding extra papers left over after his exams. They could be nothing. Or they could be the doorway to a past he never knew he had, and a future he never could have imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wleebrooks.com\/?page_id=232\"><strong>Max (Short Story)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Max has been dragged to yet another small town by his dad, who is desperate for work. He desperately misses his mom, but does she miss him? 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But tonight something is out there in the dark, something that won&#8217;t stay in the past where it belongs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Warning: Graphic content)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wleebrooks.com\/?page_id=203\"><strong>The Hole (Short Story)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">A prison warden faces his own demons when a prisoner escapes from the hole &#8212; an inescapable room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scarletleafreview.com\/short-stories20\/category\/w-lee-brooks\"><strong>Old Monster (Short Story published in the Scarlet Leaf Review)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">A man meets his soon to be father-in-law, an old law man with a story to tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wleebrooks.com\/?page_id=179\"><strong>Maui (Short Story)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">A woman grapples with her unique ability while on a vacation in Maui with her family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wleebrooks.com\/?page_id=171\"><strong>The White Glove (Short Story)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">An old lady gets the past off her chest during a three-day trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wleebrooks.com\/?page_id=103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Girl in the Park (Short Story)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">A man&#8217;s life gets complicated when he keeps seeing the same mysterious little girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.reedsy.com\/creative-writing-prompts\/contests\/63\/submissions\/38417\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Far Shore (Short Story published at Reedsy Prompts)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Mother and her flock are embarking on a very strange migration this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.reedsy.com\/creative-writing-prompts\/contests\/53\/submissions\/28930\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Memory Tree (Short Story published at Reedsy Prompts)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">A woman&#8217;s marriage threatens to unravel when her husband takes her to a mysterious lakeside cabin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.reedsy.com\/creative-writing-prompts\/contests\/57\/submissions\/32392\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Call (Short Story published at Reedsy Prompts)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Settling Mars was unforgiving enough. 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