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."

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Books

The Haircut
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 3,690. Language: English. Published: February 4, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Women's fiction » General
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
Price: Free! Words: 4,610. Language: English. Published: November 13, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Adventure » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
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
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 860. Language: English. Published: November 5, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » 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.
Suffer the Little Children
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 4,490. Language: Spanish. Published: October 15, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Adventure » General
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
Price: Free! Words: 520. Language: English. Published: October 7, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Home & Garden » Green living
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 1,150. Language: English. Published: October 5, 2010 . Categories: Essay » Literature
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
Price: Free! Words: 680. Language: English. Published: October 4, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Cooking, Food, Wine, Spirits » Culinary careers
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
Price: Free! Words: 640. Language: English. Published: September 29, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Family activities
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 730. Language: English. Published: September 29, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Home & Garden » Apartment living
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 610. Language: English. Published: September 27, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Entertainment » Celebrity culture
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
Price: Free! Words: 850. Language: English. Published: September 23, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Dieting
Breaking health news: you no longer have to worry about what you eat!
Old Men & Young Virgins: From Adam On
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 870. Language: English. Published: September 22, 2010 . Categories: Essay » Literature
(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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 480. Language: English. Published: September 20, 2010 . Categories: Essay » Literature
(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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 1,340. Language: English. Published: September 17, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Inspiration » Spiritual inspiration
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 630. Language: English. Published: September 16, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Inspiration » Personal inspiration
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 810. Language: English. Published: September 10, 2010 . Categories: Essay » Literature
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 1,020. Language: English. Published: September 9, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Entertainment » Celebrity culture
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 780. Language: English. Published: September 8, 2010 . Categories: Essay » Literature
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 750. Language: English. Published: September 6, 2010 . Categories: Essay » Literature
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 1,260. Language: English. Published: September 3, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Inspiration » Personal inspiration
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 1,000. Language: English. Published: September 2, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » American
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 580. Language: English. Published: September 2, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Science & Nature » Agricultural science
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 1,060. Language: English. Published: September 1, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Inspiration » Spiritual inspiration
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 990. Language: English. Published: August 30, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Aging, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 760. Language: English. Published: August 30, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Inspiration » Personal inspiration, Nonfiction » Parenting » Adoption
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 560. Language: English. Published: August 27, 2010 . Categories: Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Family activities, Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Aging
(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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 730. Language: English. Published: August 27, 2010 . Categories: Essay » Literature
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?
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 4,620. Language: English. Published: August 26, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Holiday » Humorous
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 4,380. Language: English. Published: August 25, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
"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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 4,330. Language: English. Published: August 24, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Holiday » Humorous
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 2,140. Language: English. Published: August 24, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
(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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 5,240. Language: English. Published: August 20, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 6,060. Language: English. Published: August 13, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
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
Price: Free! Words: 3,290. Language: English. Published: August 11, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Adventure » General
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 5,040. Language: English. Published: August 10, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Adventure » General
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 2,770. Language: English. Published: August 9, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
(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)
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 73,290. Language: English. Published: August 4, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 3,840. Language: English. Published: July 29, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
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
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,090. Language: English. Published: July 28, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 3,480. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » African American fiction » Christian
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 1,370. Language: English. Published: July 26, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Animals » General
"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.
Song of the Mockingbird
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 7,800. Language: English. Published: July 24, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 3,740. Language: English. Published: July 17, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 4,710. Language: English. Published: July 16, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 3,400. Language: English. Published: July 14, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
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...
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 5,030. Language: English. Published: July 13, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 3,480. Language: English. Published: July 12, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Adventure » General
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 3,990. Language: English. Published: July 11, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 2,370. Language: English. Published: July 10, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » African American fiction » Historical
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
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 2,230. Language: English. Published: July 8, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
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."
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Janice Daugharty's favorite authors on Smashwords

Ernest Winchester
Latest book: A Messenger, My Son's Life With Jesus.
Published June 3, 2015. (3.00 from 2 reviews)

Smashwords book reviews by Janice Daugharty

  • Paths on Aug. 14, 2010

    "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

    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

    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