The Daily Novel

Chapter Seventeen
She didn’t dare go to the hospital. She could just imagine! So she called her doctor’s office, then called the nurse-midwife with whom she had also consulted. “I’ll be right over,” Anna said. It was 10 PM by now. Why do babies love to get themselves born at night? Marie mused between contractions.
But in [...]

Chapter Eleven
Why couldn’t this Marie woman be a member of their church? It would have been so much better for the Life Force Spiritual Path if Marie had been a member, Adam thought. After all, LFSP believed in the Second Coming, believed Marie was probably bearing the next incarnation of the messiah. And if the [...]

Chapter Ten
“Are we riding in together?” It wasn’t as if Cole didn’t see enough of his wife, and it wasn’t as if the drive to work was so long that taking two cars was a serious expenditure of gas. Yet any day that Marie took her own car to work was a Major Disappointment in [...]

Chapter Six
Pastor Hemmings infinitely preferred coffee to tea, but he wasn’t going to be impolite or ungracious.  As he sipped the lapsang souchong that Reverend Argyle had given him, though, he was grateful for the lemon. It added bite to the smoky, warm liquid. Pastor Hemmings preferred a more robust drink—strong coffee, unalloyed by milk [...]