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KIDS | A HEARTBEAT AWAY… STORIES BY CHRIS BEAKEY
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A step back to the memories that made you who you are. Happy childhoods are driven by the force of imagination after the fact, or by being lucky enough to have all of the right advantages when they’re happening. Some of these stories are happy and some aren’t. Read them here on my blog. Leave a Reply Cancel Reply. Notify me of new posts by email. WRITER’S CLUB REVIEW – MAKE ME, by Lee Child. WRITER’S CLUB REVIEW – THE WAYS OF THE DEAD, by Neely Tucker, and THE FALL, by John Lescroart.
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November | 2014 | A HEARTBEAT AWAY… STORIES BY CHRIS BEAKEY
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November 12, 2014. WELCOME TO MY BLOG! Welcome to my blog. Hope you’ll enjoy reading my stories and looking at the information in my Writers Club! I look forward to your comments and any questions. Writer’s Club Review – Lucky Strikes, by Louis Bayard. WRITER’S CLUB REVIEW – Guilty Minds, by Joseph Finder. WRITER’S CLUB REVIEW – MAKE ME, by Lee Child. WRITER’S CLUB REVIEW – THE WAYS OF THE DEAD, by Neely Tucker, and THE FALL, by John Lescroart. On FATAL OPTION – EXCERPT.
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EXCERPTS | A HEARTBEAT AWAY… STORIES BY CHRIS BEAKEY
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Enjoy excerpts from my books. December 29, 2014 at 10:12 pm. I was fortunate enough to read this book in it’s entirety, Edge of your seat thriller that keeps you turning pages after you say to yourself I’ll just read one more chapter. Leave a Reply Cancel Reply. Notify me of new posts by email. WRITER’S CLUB REVIEW – MAKE ME, by Lee Child. WRITER’S CLUB REVIEW – THE WAYS OF THE DEAD, by Neely Tucker, and THE FALL, by John Lescroart. WRITER’S CLUB REVIEW – CRAZY LOVE YOU by Lisa Unger.
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LIFE STORIES | A HEARTBEAT AWAY… STORIES BY CHRIS BEAKEY
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A step closer to understanding the people you're bound to meet. Life’s rarely easy, but it’s usually worth living. These stories are driven by the challenges and rewards and enigmas of relationships with family, friends, adversaries and lovers. Read them here on my blog. Helen stood at the foot of the steep stairs that led to her attic, and reconsidered the risk of going up. There was a handrail she could grasp all the way to the top, relieving some of the strain on her wobbly knees. One, two, three, four.
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Mysteries | A HEARTBEAT AWAY… STORIES BY CHRIS BEAKEY
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October 19, 2015. Lucas feels a phantom pain beneath the scars on his cheek and nearly winces from memories of the flash fire and the burning meth and the concrete jail cell as he meets Chase Raythorne’s eyes across the room. You should consider yourself lucky, Chase tells him. You could’ve been locked up a lot longer. He hesitates for what he knows is an instant too long before answering. Yeah well it was plenty long enough. You get any extra sympathy for those burns? Him to talk,. So tell me, Lucas, how.
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DOUBLE ABDUCTION – EXCERPT | A HEARTBEAT AWAY… STORIES BY CHRIS BEAKEY
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December 17, 2014. DOUBLE ABDUCTION – EXCERPT. EXCERPT FROM DOUBLE ABDUCTION. Stealing a child in broad daylight could be tricky, but the shopping mall almost made it simple. Blending easily with the crowd, the abductor followed Mary Bennett and her brother Michael from a distance of 30 feet, feeling a restrained sense of excitement as Mary’s son, five-year-old Justin Bennett, took advantage of a moment of inattention and slipped away. After that the task would be simple, nothing to do but get Justin Ben...
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Uncategorized | A HEARTBEAT AWAY… STORIES BY CHRIS BEAKEY
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December 14, 2014. Enjoy excerpts from my books. November 12, 2014. WELCOME TO MY BLOG! Welcome to my blog. Hope you’ll enjoy reading my stories and looking at the information in my Writers Club! I look forward to your comments and any questions. Writer’s Club Review – Lucky Strikes, by Louis Bayard. WRITER’S CLUB REVIEW – Guilty Minds, by Joseph Finder. WRITER’S CLUB REVIEW – MAKE ME, by Lee Child. WRITER’S CLUB REVIEW – THE WAYS OF THE DEAD, by Neely Tucker, and THE FALL, by John Lescroart.
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August | 2015 | A HEARTBEAT AWAY… STORIES BY CHRIS BEAKEY
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August 14, 2015. Seconds after stepping off the Metro, under a flickering streetlight, Alexandra feels the skin prickling at the back of her neck. She stiffens her spine. The very thought makes her smirk as she approaches the corner guarded by two teenage boys and pauses, her eyes scanning the street for a passing car,. Knowing that neither a change in her gait nor her attitude will make a difference if she gets in the way of a drive-by in the battles over drug turf that rage day and night. There’s a har...
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Excerpts | A HEARTBEAT AWAY… STORIES BY CHRIS BEAKEY
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February 21, 2016. FATAL OPTION – EXCERPT. The blizzard winds hit the bedroom windows with brute-force, the. The windows shuddered again as he slipped into a deeper doze. He sensed a vague threat in the sound a notion the glass might break as it persisted. Louder now, nudging its way into the dream-space between wakefulness and sleep, still a part of the physical world of his bedroom and his house . . . but with a reverberation of the past. It’s 9 o’clock. But I have to go. It’s not safe. He felt a jolt ...
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SPECULATION | A HEARTBEAT AWAY… STORIES BY CHRIS BEAKEY
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August 14, 2015. Seconds after stepping off the Metro, under a flickering streetlight, Alexandra feels the skin prickling at the back of her neck. She stiffens her spine. The very thought makes her smirk as she approaches the corner guarded by two teenage boys and pauses, her eyes scanning the street for a passing car,. Knowing that neither a change in her gait nor her attitude will make a difference if she gets in the way of a drive-by in the battles over drug turf that rage day and night. There’s a har...
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