Since I can’t be everywhere for live author readings, I have them here. This is the first page of the novel On Hammet Shore.

Reading #2: Throwing off the mortal coil - in which Henry contemplates his planned departure from life

This scene is told as a past tense memory as Henry, then a young man of sixteen, meets the woman who would turn his life upside down.

The fourth in a series of readings by the author for the novel On Hammet Shore. In this one, our protagonist Henry reminisces about why Sybil was so exciting in his life.