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B. L. Aldrich

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Short Fiction

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Takin' Out The Trash

After Jean's play day is dampened by the discovery her big sister has found a replacement for make-believe in her new boyfriend, baby sister takes matters into her hands. 

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An  Old-fashioned Bond

Vera Machoan takes a vacation for the first time in thirty years. Will an unexpected encounter with a stranger spell romance or disaster after a lifetime of loneliness?

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Second Best

Azalea Timmons knew true love, but he was ripped from her by war. Can she find it again in the arms of a patient stranger? Does she even want to? 

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His Lover's Keeper

On the Eve of America's entry into WWI, Rick attends the engagement party of the man he loves and finds himself in unexpected sympathy with his rival for Matthew's affection. 

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A Tethering of Souls

The departed spirit of a soldier in the Indian Army meets a depressed young woman called Sam who has come to visit a forgotten WII memorial in order to make a decision.

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Garden Bones

Civil War Veteran and Psychometric ghost hunter Grahame Auden and his clairvoyant pet Newfoundland Theo investigate a haunting in the home of the local mayor's wife.

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The Debtor's Due

Robert Thompson's finances are in a shocking ruin, but a visit from a mysterious and supernatural benefactor might just turn things around.

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The Snow Fairy

Once upon a time, a jilted witch became a human hating hermit. Will one snowy evening's encounter with a freezing stranger be enough to thaw her crotchety heart?

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A Wind Full of Change

Famous Elvish sailor brothers, Twyland and Carmelon, have never lost a boat race, which bores them to death. But the last minute entry of un unlikely rival in a pair of sailing dwarves might just upset their record.

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The Last Kiss

In the middle of the night, Lydia awakes to a phone call from her father informing her of her mother's untimely death via car wreck. Will she be able to push through her own grief and trauma to reach her estranged father on the other side?

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Elementary Valor

To Steven Cole, little Nick Walker was just the quiet kid in his kindergarten class. But upon discovering Nick's home life might be abusive, Steven unexpectedly finds himself caught between bureaucracy  and his own conscience. 

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Nursing Old Wounds

While working night shift med-surg, RN Nick Walker gets a patient who opens a door to his past he thought was shut and locked forever. 

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Disappointment

A trio of mothers have encounters with their adult daughters that leave them wondering where it all went wrong. 

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Chet Baker Loves Caviar

Broke and hungover after a night of writing music, Adam and his buddy Matteo head to work as temporary wait staff for a penthouse party. Little do they know, Matteo's rancid cat Chet has his eye on the catering. 

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B.L. Aldrich wrote her first novel at the age of five. Fourteen printer pages long, self illustrated, and leaning heavily upon Ray Steven's "Along Came Jones" for a plot, it detailed the adventures of a one-eyed, anthropomorphic rat named Blind Jack. Thankfully her works have grown in quality and sophistication, but she never relinquished her author's pen. 

 Her short fiction has since appeared at the online magazines LACUNA: A Journal of Historical Fiction, The Hoggle Pot, Black Lantern, in DreamFusion Press's anthology The Book of the Macabre, and Blunderwoman Productions audio anthology Vintage Love Stories. A former English tutor at Chattahoochee Technical College turned telemetry technician, she received her Masters in Professional Writing from Kennesaw State University. Continually drafting, her work is marked by a fascination with characters who confuse, teach, and change her.  

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