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Janice Daugharty


Biography

Janice Daugharty, artist in residence at Abraham Baldwin Agriculture College, in Tifton, Georgia, is the author of 7 print novels and two story collections. Her newest novel, "The Little Known," is now available in ebook and print. Daugharty is in the process of uploading e-stories to Smashwords for your reading pleasure. For more on this author visit www.janicedaugharty.com See "Fans of Janice Daugharty" on Facebook and author profile at HarperCollins.com. I have a new print and ebook novel coming out at the end of Feb 2011. The title is "Heir to the Everlasting."

Where to find Janice Daugharty online

Website: http://www.janicedaugharty.com
Twitter: codaddy3
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Where to buy in print

http://www.harpercollins.com/janicedaugharty/

Books

The Haircut    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3690 words. Published on February 4, 2011. Fiction.
Beth is pregnant again and her son is only seven-teen months old. Both she and her husband Donnie work but they can't seem to catch up their debts. They cannot afford another baby, so it's decided that Beth will get an abortion. They have no choice. She keeps putting it off. Then she goes to a shopping mall to get a haircut and everything comes undone.
What Happens When You Don't Play Ball    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 4610 words. Published on November 13, 2010. Fiction.
Miss Faye is recovering from a broken hip. Sick of the physical therapy session, in which a bunch of old people are tossing a big yellow ball, she wheels her chair from the room, and keeps wheeling it till she is sitting outside the hospital. Not her fault that a cab driver named Stinker mistakes her for his fare. A whole day with Stinker teaches her what happens when you don't play ball.
Nannie's Moon: a children's book    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 860 words. Published on November 5, 2010. Fiction.
A little girl learns from her grandmother about the natural cycles of life and death. They watch the moon waxing and waning; they watch the tomatoes in the garden grow from tiny yellow flowers to red, ripe orbs. The little girl sees herself in comparison to her grandmother--one new and the other old. They watch as the moon returns to new again and the starting-over.
FREE excerpt from the historical novel, "Massacre at Moniac Crossing," by Janice Daugharty    by Janice Daugharty
Price: Free! 3660 words. Published on October 28, 2010. Fiction.
Merry Gay Rose, in a sweet red coat, is riding on back of the wagon driven by her daddy, the Great Hoss Rose. Taking a tram road through the turpentine woods, they are on their way to the funeral of Hoss's deer hunting buddy, Redbone, to deliver the rickety pine box built by Hoss and a scandulous song he wrote to be sung by Merry Gay. The box turns out to be more revealing than the song...
Suffer the Little Children    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 4490 words. Published on October 15, 2010. Fiction.
Dot Knight and her Sunday school class visit the local migrant workers camp to invite them to revival at the Baptist church. The object is to fill a pew and make points for the pious Miss Dot with the preacher. The children have no trouble communicating because of recognition of common hardships and play. But Miss Dot makes a mess of both languages and is sent on her way.
Green Farming    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 520 words. Published on October 7, 2010. Nonfiction.
Most things tagged free, I've found, are gonna cost you. Like the green fertilizer in this piece on green farming. Well, at least you can read about it for free...
Demon Messenger    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 1150 words. Published on October 5, 2010. Nonfiction.
I was fascinated, flattered when the carrier pigeon kited down to my wicker porch swing. He was wearing a gold band above his right claw encircling a white paper scrap. I held out my hand for him to give me my message. He jittered and squawked. So I went inside for some dry grits to use as a bribe. While he ate I phoned an expert on such birds. He said, "Whatever you do don't feed him grits..."
Yummy Dummies: Food Photo Shoot    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 680 words. Published on October 4, 2010. Nonfiction.
Celebs in those slick mags look perfect--airbrushed! That plump, golden chicken looks delicious--airbrushed and worse. Eat at your own risk!
Shanna's Connections    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 640 words. Published on September 29, 2010. Nonfiction.
My niece Shanna called me on the phone. I thought we had a bad connection. "What's that background racket?" I asked. "Oh," she said, "that's the little shovel on my lap scraping against the table." "Why do you have a shovel on your lap?" I asked. "Well, see, Daddy tied it to the cordless with a shoe lace so he could keep up with the phone when he needs it." Why a shovel? Why a shoe lace?
Bundling Twigs    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 730 words. Published on September 29, 2010. Nonfiction.
Kneeling in the tiny, enclosed courtyard of her Atlanta townhouse, my friend was tying neat bundles of twigs from a massive wisteria vine she'd been gradually dismantling. "Why don't you just toss the mess over that wall?" I asked, pointing behind her. "Because," she said, "that's my neighbor's courtyard." I'm from the country of big men, big equipment and lots of space.
The Dixie Chics    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 610 words. Published on September 27, 2010. Nonfiction.
Where did the Dixie Chics disappear to for a while, and why did they disappear? Who decides who get to be little and big in entertainment? Here's what this author thinks...
Hot Dogs    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $0.99 USD. 850 words. Published on September 23, 2010. Nonfiction.
Breaking health news: you no longer have to worry about what you eat!
Old Men & Young Virgins: From Adam On    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 870 words. Published on September 22, 2010. Nonfiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
It's a well doccumented fact that old men since Adam have believed that a young virgin might not only make them happy but prolong their lives.
Chelsea    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 480 words. Published on September 20, 2010. .
(1.00 from 1 review)
Chelsea, my adopted great-niece, loves competing in beauty pageants. But because of a serious heart condition the least jolt or surprise can result in exaggerated shows of emotion. For instance, when Chelsea discovers that her new pageant friend has flipper-teeth she is shocked to tears.
A Modified Jesus    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 1340 words. Published on September 17, 2010. Nonfiction.
Young lovers in the 1960s, my boyfriend and I sinned all week; on Sundays, I repented. He was a boy so didn't have to. With nothing much to do in our woodsy home county, we visited the area churches on Sunday. What we heard didn't really pertain because we were young and in love and couldn't die. Heaven and hell were for old people. We were eager to be alone, together in my boyfriend's car.
Birds in Migration: a descriptive nature essay    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 630 words. Published on September 16, 2010. Nonfiction.
They come and go, the birds flying over our farmplace in South Georgia. We feed them, we watch them, we carry on about them. This year however, because of the Asian Bird Flu scare I'm hoping they will have forgotten our Southern hospitality.
I Ain't Staying    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 810 words. Published on September 10, 2010. Essay.
I had been there most of the morning watching the living dead file in for their doctor's appointments. An old man in bib overalls sat down in the chair facing me. "I ain't staying," he said. His wife and son, I guessed, sat each side of him. "I ain't staying," he said again, repeating it about every two minutes. "Daddy," said his son, "it's not even your appointment. It's Mama's."
Gone With the Wind    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 1020 words. Published on September 9, 2010. Nonfiction.
Gone with the wind were the mothers we knew, as they watched the movie. Usually strict, they let my cousins and me roam the shimmery, other-worldly theater. We went alone to the restrooms; we bought all the Cokes and popcorn we wanted. Coins seemed to spawn in our mothers' purses. They would never be the same and neither would I...
Satan's Little Acre    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 780 words. Published on September 8, 2010. Nonfiction.
Land for sale! Best Offer. Or free--if you are willing and able to take over annual property taxes at $4,000 dollars on one acre of swamp in Southeast Georgia. View at your own risk. No refunds.
Piebald    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 750 words. Published on September 6, 2010. Nonfiction.
What would you do if you were suddenly blessed with a piebald deer mount in your small living room? No problem if it was placed as a centerpiece by an enemy, but a husband of many years is a different story. Add to that, this husband really thinks "Piebald" is a masterpiece.
Time    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 1260 words. Published on September 3, 2010. Nonfiction.
I'm likely to be proved a liar for believing that life gets easier, if not sweeter, with the passing of time. I remember the old days, the hard times, and can't help thinking that progression of time brings us closer to that place of everlasting rest.
The AJC Reporter    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 1000 words. Published on September 2, 2010. Nonfiction.
An Atlanta newspaper reporter, looking for a story, reveals the secret history of the smallest county in Georgia. Facts unleashed, the resident natives become suspicious of one another and the origins of the old-name families.
Surprise Corn Patch    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 580 words. Published on September 2, 2010. Nonfiction.
Autumn is on the way to South Georgia, bringing with it changes in our backyard corn patch. Already, the corn stalks are drying in blowing poses, shaped by some hidden hand during the magic of midnight. From spring to fall I watch for changes in the cube of corn--my cows watch too.
The Widow's Mite    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 1060 words. Published on September 1, 2010. Nonfiction.
I know what it's like to be on the receiving end of mercy; I know what it's like to be hungry and broke. I couldn't scrap up enough change from my Gucci purse to buy even a drink. The fast food manager discounted my food 100%. The Spirit was moving among us in a most unlikely place.
Frances    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 990 words. Published on August 30, 2010. Nonfiction.
I first met this Frances at a nursing home where my daddy lived for awhile before he died. She walked up to me in the hall and asked should she give them milk with their food. Next time she asked me to bring her a trouble-free "itty-bitty baby." And then I found out that this Frances was a serial kidnapper of other patients' baby dolls. She reminded me of that other Frances, my deceased mother.
Real Dolls    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 760 words. Published on August 30, 2010. Nonfiction.
If you miss your grown children and think you'd like another chance to get it right, read this personal essay. Maybe you would like child-raising to be a little easier this go round--read "Real Dolls." Maybe you have a grandchild (or grandchildren) who you don't get to see that often--well, here's the solution for you. Of course it's gonna cost you, but not for this essay, which is free!
Castor Bean Seeds    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 560 words. Published on August 27, 2010. Nonfiction.
(3.00 from 1 review)
A young bride in 1963, my friendly new neighbors showered me with Castor Bean seeds. Nobody knew then that the seeds contained Ricin. They were just tall exotic plants, free for the sharing. Later I learned how toxic the seeds are and wondered how many had been carried downstream to Florida by the Alapaha River. But that was a different time--that was before the grasshopper became a burden.
Air People    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 730 words. Published on August 27, 2010. Nonfiction.
Recorded for NPR by Janice Daugharty I was at first shocked by the sheer mass of scurrying humanity at Hartsfield International Airport, in Atlanta, Georgia. All alone under one roof, yet not a foot apart from each other. Nobody spoke to me. Then I wondered what would happen if I actually tried to strike up a conversation with somebody...
And the Winner Is?    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 4620 words. Published on August 26, 2010. Fiction.
Eileen and Duck Dixon were on the verge of splitting up before they learned they'd won the Easter Lottery. Now they're stuck. Then they discover a missing ticket out of the twenty-five each bought. So who actually owns the winning ticket? To make matters worse, Eileen's mother Nell had loaned them the money to buy the tickets. By rights, does the winning ticket belong to her?
Wherebouts Are We    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 4380 words. Published on August 25, 2010. Fiction.
"Grannie has bad skin cancers but not bad enough to take her out of this world" where nobody wants her except one granddaughter. Luzanne drives her from house to house belonging to Grannie's three daughters, but each refuses to take her. It is while "visiting" Imo that the old lady finds a final rest while trailing a yellow cat out to a sunny porch.
The First Nudist    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 4330 words. Published on August 24, 2010. Fiction.
Following a family reunion, Gransallie learns that her favorite niece, Ophelia, ia a not only a school teacher but a nudist. Hating to be proved wrong, Gransallie tries to defend Ophelia to her granddaughters, who "don't care where they are going or what shape they arrive in as long as they are going." Gransallie is their driver and chapperone on trips to Florida, or just anywhere.
Robbing Honey    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 2140 words. Published on August 24, 2010. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review)
Davey follows Jack along the river bank to their favorite fishing spot, but things aren't how they used to be. Jack has married Davey's sister the night before and that's all Davey can think about, even as they follow the smell of sweet-ripe honey and the sound of swarming bees to the tree with the honey.
Luck of the Count    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 5240 words. Published on August 20, 2010. Fiction.
On a Saturday morning drunk, the Count and his grown son Lucky stumble onto a black woman's shack in the quarters of Cornerville to pilfer for food. When she happens up on them, the Count pulls out his pocket knife and cuts her throat. They go to jail but not for long because the Count's brother King, as usual, gets them out. But the old lady's not done with them. Especially Lucky.
Sunday Visit    by Janice Daugharty
Price: Free! 6060 words. Published on August 13, 2010. Fiction.
General Norton receives a visit from a thief, and he is in for the time of his life. An invalid with nothing to do, General has advertised a goat on a radio exchange program, which "the Hippie" picks up on. The odd pair go out to see the goat and get into a fight about religion, among other things. Despite their differences, the General decides that bad company is better than no company.
Black Widow    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 3290 words. Published on August 11, 2010. Fiction.
Outside the church it is freezing, raining, but inside Lavonia is doing just fine. She is seated on the first pew in her widow's weeds facing the casket of her x-husband and his common-law wife in the choir. Young Betty will have her day in the seat of honor for another dead man. Then the two women face off against each other in the white limo on the way to the cemetery and all hell breaks loose.
Cammie's Lost Years    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 5040 words. Published on August 10, 2010. Fiction.
What if you returned to your hometown after a decade of shock treatments in a lock-up away from everything and everybody you knew? When you come home, with no memory, only sensations, everything is new. Gradually, as sensation gives way to memory, you venture out but everybody shuns you. What have you done to them? Cammie Short finds answers better left hidden.
Caring for the Elderly    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 2770 words. Published on August 9, 2010. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review)
Hun is ninety-some-odd years old and at the mercy of a bitter, controlling black woman hired by the family to keep their beloved relative at home till she dies. When Hun's two grand-nieces show up one fall morning for a visit, the caregiver cranks her meanness up a notch. She gets them told! Hun cries...
Pawpaw Patch (a novel--first published in 1996)    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $6.99 USD. 73290 words. Published on August 4, 2010. Fiction.
At forty, Chanell Foster is proud and popular in her hometown. Her beauty shop is more than her business--it is the town's social hub--and one's status in Cornervill is ensured by a standing weekly appointment in Chanell's book. But life in a small southern town can change without warning. For Chanell, it begins when several of her regular customers fail to appear for their appointments...
Lovie's Baby    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3840 words. Published on July 29, 2010. Fiction.
From "Lovie's Baby": "They said they saw her that Monday morning running up the road toward the courthouse, with that pink blanket all nussed-up to her bosom like the baby was still alive. And it SOME cold..."
School Strongarm    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 7090 words. Published on July 28, 2010. Fiction.
Obese, long-time school secretary Alene finally gets her first truck and boyfriend, a hitch-hiker who winds up in her bedroom in the house she shares with her saintly, finiky mother. Then Alene gets replaced at work by a young woman with a ponytail. The principle sends Alene to set up office in the cloakroom. And then she learns that she hasn't been a secretary but a strongarm hired to keep order.
In His Own Hometown    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3480 words. Published on July 27, 2010. Fiction.
Earl Sanders, a black man from Washington, DC, is the only one worthy enough to dedicate the new library in his S. Ga. home county. He is the only one to go away and make good. But nobody, black or white, is willing to put him up for the night but a bitter, old black lady who wants to know one thing: why would he come back after he finally got out of these turpentine woods?
Ness and Codaddy--children's rhyming book    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 1370 words. Published on July 26, 2010. Fiction.
"Ness and Codaddy" is a children's rhyming book about two chocolate labs, daddy and daughter. Ness, the one year old female, is fascinated with her daddy's pink tongue. Codaddy always gets blamed by his master for Ness's mischief, so he lures her away from home in an attempt to lose her.
Save All My Children and Grandchildren    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 7820 words. Published on July 24, 2010. Fiction.
An old lady reaches out from the grave with a message on a dollar bill to her grown daughters and grandchildren. After the funeral, they gather at the old lady's home to go through her meager belongings. Fannie, boss over the family, finds the dollar bill and they all quarell over what the hand-written message means. Nobody wants the dollar except Zeke, favorite grandson and son of Fannie...
Little Big Girls    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3740 words. Published on July 17, 2010. Fiction.
Temple, little beauty-queen pro, knows that her mother, Cammie, has spiked drinks of her competitors. Once Cammie even "accidentally" stepped on a child's dress tail and ripped it from the bodice. But tonight is Temple's first contest in her mother's small hometown and Temple will be competing with her first real friend, daughter of one of Cammie's former high-school classmates.
Something Safe, Something Free    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 4710 words. Published on July 16, 2010. Fiction.
In time, Willie will drop from his high on alcohol and self-pity. In time, he will adapt to working for the black man who used to work for him. Bear now owns Willie's heavy-construction business, because of a change in govt. regulations. What Willie will never adapt to though is his x-wife's conning him out of his twin girls.
Beck and Barn    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3400 words. Published on July 14, 2010. Fiction.
In the tradition of Eudora Welty, "Beck and Barn" is an old-timey love story marked by ironic exaggerated devotion. After Barney dies, Becky goes to visit her sister; when she returns, she finds that her no-account "baby" brother has burned her house and with it her only picture of Barn. Now, Beck has something to live for--revenge. But denied that, she will have to settle for a simple I'm sorry.
Rich Man-Poor Man...    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 5030 words. Published on July 13, 2010. Fiction.
No longer a Paul-Newman playboy type, who used to leave his family waiting and wondering, Elec now prides himself on "making trades" at the various houses along the rural routes where he works. For instance, at the home of June Bug and Candy, while June Bug is away, Elec talks Candy into giving him her dead mother-in-law's hated chickens. This odd couple breaks Elec of his bad habits.
Black Cloud    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3480 words. Published on July 12, 2010. Fiction.
Because of his dignified bearing and good looks, Wilton Norton is viewed as a ladies' man, though he has loved only one lady. Now past his prime, after his wife Ann dies, he misses her. He is alone and growing soft. Then the IRS comes after him, followed by government-placed cougars on his cattle ranch. He would like to best the government just once before he dies. And he does.
The Jacket    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3990 words. Published on July 11, 2010. Fiction.
Imagine that you, like the grandfather in this story, are confined to a wheel chair from which you watch your only grandchild--in this case a boy, "Butch"--repeat your past like a re-wound video. Already emotionally estranged from the child, who is completely in your care, you can only watch and wait and hope the video will end before you are forced to use the pistol next to your right hip.
The Legacy of Roosevelt Clay    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 2370 words. Published on July 10, 2010. Fiction.
This is a tale of how a black man in the deep south of the 1950's and 60's became the biggest landowner in all of the region. Or so they say...
Foxhunting    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 2230 words. Published on July 8, 2010. Fiction.
Minor, a worn-out foxhunter, has been ordered by "the daughter-in-law" to have his old foxhound put down. But first he takes Joe Blow out to the woods where they've hunted for so long for one final hunt. It is there that Minor realizes it's not just the old dog in danger of being "put down."
It's Okay to Cry    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3150 words. Published on July 7, 2010. Fiction.
Bethann, a struggling college student, decides to take care of Holly, her evil, manipulative younger sister after their grandmother, who raised them, dies. But Holly is a mess. And en route to Miami after the funeral, Bethann lays down the rules to Holly, while mentally trying to understand what makes Holly tick. If Bethann can figure her out she can fix her. So she thinks.
The Least Preacher    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 7400 words. Published on July 7, 2010. Fiction.
"There is a lot of red clay and long nights in every line Janice Daugharty puts on paper." Pat Conroy Duncan finds his lost faith hiking the roads to country churches with his nephew, who he passes off as the world's littlest preacher. Duncan used to be a preacher himself; his father was too. But as he tells the boy, "You gotta have a hook, or else be called. And you gotta leave the women alone
The Odds Are Against It    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 2810 words. Published on July 6, 2010. Fiction.
Rural mail carrier, Tammy, bumps heads in a nightmare during a rare spring snow storm. Twenty years before, she was kidnapped and shot by a drug addict she met along her route. Now she picks up another stranger along her route and the memories come flooding back. Is she about to be kidnapped and shot again? No, she tells herself, because the odds against it are so great.
Vision Quest    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3600 words. Published on July 6, 2010. Fiction.
Adam's notions on hard work, sacrifice, crime and punishment are tested when he meets one of the juvenile delinquents from a govenment-funded rehab program crossing country with a wagon train. Vision Quest was created to keep young criminals from getting into further trouble. To Adam, at first, the program seems geared more toward reward than punishment.
Vacation Bible School    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 4840 words. Published on July 5, 2010. Fiction.
(Companion story to "Jesus Bus") Dot Knight's car is brand-new in this story and she aims to keep it that way. Problem is, she has been enlisted by her adored preacher to drive those nasty Odums' kids to Vacation Bible School halfway across the county. Then her car breaks down along a remote road, and the kid's turn her car into a wreak...
Name of Love    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3680 words. Published on July 1, 2010. Fiction.
Sunny has grown used to her older brother Horace's yawning crying. But she refuses to adjust to the notion that the physically deformed and mentally retarded twenty-one year old will have to be retired to the Georgia State Insane Asylum. She's the one who takes care of him and she's the one who will save him from the family hauling him off to Milledgeville--no matter what she has to do.
Katy Land    by Janice Daugharty
Price: Free! 6640 words. Published on July 1, 2010. Fiction.
Katy Land, country music singer at a local bar, is walking along the sidewalk on a cold bright morning when a goat trailer belonging to Skip, "the goat man," slips its hitch and rolls back, scooping Katy up and taking her on a wild ride before dumping her. Skip, a broke country music singer also, on the side, tries to make ammends but the media encourage Katy to sue.
Peddling Bub    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3640 words. Published on June 30, 2010. Fiction.
First published in STORY Trish is the community dopehead and bad mother, out on a winter evening to give Bub, her third child away. Her last stop is at her x-inlaws, who have taken Trish's two little girls the year before. Trish, smoking her final cigarette, displays her Bub's burns and bruises on his backside. Who did it? She doesn't know...so she makes up a story.
Wrong Season    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 4300 words. Published on June 30, 2010. Fiction.
It was all over the news, several years ago, the story of Susan Smith deliberately driving her car into a lake and drowning her two children. That was in S.C. In South Georgia, another young mother, Ginger, spellbound by the story, imagines the episode and thinks she has a special understanding of how and why Susan Smith killed her children.
Along A Wider River    by Janice Daugharty
Price: Free! 2950 words. Published on June 26, 2010. Fiction.
Fishing from the Alapaha River bank, Dump Watson faces off with his long-time enemy Boss Pender who is fishing from a boat. Dump has a deep-seated hatred of Pender, one of the farmers who he used to farm on halves for. Pender has mocked and insulted the poorer tenant farmer and now Dump recalls it all. But when Pender has an accident Dump risks his life to help him...
In a Car Going Nowhere    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 4790 words. Published on June 23, 2010. Fiction.
Lonliness and rejection switch Beebee from a cry-baby to a cold-hearted killer. After his parents divorced they gradually changed from fighting about who would get to keep Beebee to fighting about who would have to keep Beebee. Then his mother forgot his thirteenth birthday and something flipped on inside Beebee's head to ignite a deadly anger.
Dumdum (Featured story in the anthology    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 5890 words. Published on June 22, 2010. Fiction.
At first "the boy" finds the inbred calves he has to tend a burden and embarrassment. That is until the squatters at a country store try to pass the calves off to a stranger traveling through. "Never name a cow, boy," one of the men say. But it's too late. The boy has named and fallen in love with them, especially the cow he calls Dumdum.
The Spirit Knows    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 7850 words. Published on June 21, 2010. Fiction.
Orlando has a restraining order against her ex-husband, Froman, but that doesn't stop him from kidnapping and killing her. Then there is the Colonel, who has briefly met Orlando, another time, another place, seemingly disconnected, until Froman forms the link. Only the spirit could have known about the two women's shared death day.
Little Horses    by Janice Daugharty
Price: Free! 7740 words. Published on June 17, 2010. Fiction.
"Husband and wife, they looked blood-related; they looked perfect, like arm-linking dolls on the top tier of a wedding cake. Except when they were drunk..." Assistant Professor Randolph Sears--Randy to his only two friends--is about to learn why Anthony and Verandah drink so much when they are with him. And then he sees himself as he really is, not how he hopes he is.
Making History    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3920 words. Published on June 15, 2010. Fiction.
Known only as "Sister," the girl watches her wicked step-daddy sack up her cats to toss in the river. As Sister says though, "This isn't the worst thing William B. Blaine ever did." She hopes this pet sacrifice proves enough to cause her mother to make him go. Sister is obcessed with her mother's dedication to mean men; her trying to make of them who she wants them to be rather than who they are.
Troublesome Creek    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $4.99 USD. 41800 words. Published on June 9, 2010. Fiction.
Like "Fried Green Tomatoes," this short novel explores a town's misjudgmentof two spirited young women who are doing the best they can till they can do better. Following 9-11,2001, the residents of this small Georgia town are edgy and eager to lay blame, suspicious of newcomers, then out pops a girl named "Normal" from a chicken truck enroute to Fla. Daph, always for the underdog, takes Normal in.
Once Upon a Summer    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 4600 words. Published on June 8, 2010. Fiction.
Sissy, 6, and Jim, 8, have been sent to their father, the community drunk, for the summer, hoping to find food and a kind word from the man they barely know. Always hungry, obviously unwanted, Sissy repeats "Thank the Lord" at every meal, which their grandmother, aunt and uncle find obnoxious. When their father finally speaks to Sissy and Jim it is in the form of a strange goodbye.
American Breakfast-Mexican Dinner    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 5600 words. Published on June 7, 2010. Fiction.
Jilly's young days outside the diner are anger, heat, boredom and filth. Waiting with her are two foul-mouthed, angry Mexican teens and her younger brother, Stinker, whose nickname stuck for a reason. Burning up in the sun from the bay on the Gulf of Mexico, they wait for their mothers table-hopping inside the diner. Jilly wishes something would happen to draw attention to them. And then it does..
I Am    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 9260 words. Published on May 27, 2010. Fiction.
The aborted boy is only a scrap of flesh but has a heartbeat like the fluttering of butterfly wings. Kate, nurse on duty, doesn't know what to do. This sixteen-week old baby was supposed to be delivered dead! It was a given. She's been trained under such unlikely circumstances to discretely place the fetus in a basin and set it on a shelf in the lab till its--his--heart quits beating. She can't.
Snake Tales    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 6370 words. Published on May 21, 2010. Essay.
Rattlesnakes measure "8 foot long," where I come from. AND some even chase you. Nobody knows what happens if they catch you. We tell our tales for hours, gathered round a pickup's tailgate, around campfires--even standing in line at the supermarket. Dead snakes dangling from poles along the highways are commonplace, and they stay there till the buzzards peck the jewels from their hides.
Jesus Bus    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 4490 words. Published on May 20, 2010. Fiction.
Dot Knight, Sunday school teacher supreme, sets out one summer evening with her class to invite a select group of Mexican migrants to revival. The object is to fill her class's pew, and in her crooked thinking the Mexicans should be easy pickings (vulnerable as they are). Really, Dot's object is to nab the admiration of the preacher at this, her third church where she got "saved" last time.
Going to Jackson    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 7270 words. Published on May 18, 2010. Fiction.
For thirty years the Crandell family, near Albany, Georgia, have been going to Jackson Prison, near Atlanta, to witness the execution of the killer of four family members. So far, each time, the Crandell's have been greeted with a stay of execution, but finally they see justice done. Their celebration is soured by unexpected emotions as they view the murderer draw his last breath
The Hunt    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 7730 words. Published on May 13, 2010. Fiction.
A timid teenage boy finds the life he is meant for on a big cat hunt with two old geezers. After Rick's mother died, and his father remarried, he became aware of himself as a misfit. On the cat hunt with his eccentric step-grandfather, he learns why he's a misfit--he should have been born in a previous generation. Rick is out of place and out of time. The cat hunt is his rebirthing.
The Sacrifice    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $6.99 USD. 92560 words. Published on October 9, 2009. Fiction.
Two teenage girls, out scouting the Alapaha River, in South Georgia, happen up on two escaped death-row prisoners. One girl is killed and the other, Ruth, is taken hostage on a boat ride downriver for an extended nightmare of torture and sacrifice. At the end of the river, Ruth witnesses the most shocking of all sacrifices--THE sacrifice. Janice Daugharty, author of 7 published novels.
My Mother's Car    by Janice Daugharty
Price: Free! 24640 words. Published on October 8, 2009. Fiction.
Ten year old Doodle is in charge of his little brother and baby sister for the summer while his mother, Nina, is awaiting the arrival of her fourth baby. Nina claims that her husband's bossman's wife "gave" her a Mercedes, which Noodle knows will either have to go back or be paid for. They have no money so Doodle tries to keep the car clean, but his sister and brother make a playhouse of it.
Massacre at Moniac Crossing    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $6.99 USD. 93630 words. Published on October 6, 2009. Fiction.
"Massacre at Moniac Crossing" is fiction based on fact. In 1904, at a turpentine camp, in North Florida, the residents at the sleepy crossing boarded a train to St. Augustine for a day picnic and sight-seeing trip. By day's end, when everybody boarded the train again to return home, the men, loaded up in the smoking car, started quarreling and fighting, which led to their own civil war incarnate.

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Janice Daugharty's favorite authors on Smashwords


Smashwords book reviews by Janice Daugharty

  • Paths on Aug. 14, 2010
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    "Paths," by Roy Pace is beautifully written and full of meaning. Every word has been weighed by Pace before placing them for best effect. But what I loved most was living inside this story--living inside as a kid, before fear of the world took hold. What a magical childhood! Janice Daugharty
  • My Operation on Sep. 20, 2010
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    Ernest, thank you for reviewing my essay, "Chelsea." I just read your essay, "The Operation," and really like the writing and the honest insight. I hope your surgery went well; had something similar years back. Janice Daugharty
  • My Operation: Part 2 on Oct. 15, 2010
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    I will read almost anything on almost any topic as long as the writing is fresh and exact--as in this piece by Ernie Winchester. If I were an editor or publisher I would hit the delete key as soon as I encountered the first cliche--Ernie doesn't have any. After a similar operation, I referred to my zipper right off as a scar. Huh uh! Ernie rightly describes his fresh cut as a "wound." What a fine writer! Janice Daugharty