Eventual Beginnings: Stories Short and Longer is Joe DeRouen’s second short story collection and contains sixteen all-new […]
Eventual Beginnings: Stories Short and Longer will release in ten days, on June 10th, 2025, in […]
Odds and Endings: Fiction Short and Otherwise, my first collection of short stories, will be released […]
The eBook anthology I’m part of, May the Fourth: A collection of Stories Across Time and […]
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Jacob wished that Mr. Ruskin’s niece, Jenny McGee, and her boyfriend, Shawn Spencer, were here, but they were both finishing up their first year of college at Western Illinois University in Macomb. Macomb was less than thirty miles from Carthage, but Jacob couldn’t travel that far on his own. Heck, he wasn’t even supposed to know about Shawn’s magic.

— Up in Smoke, from Odds and Endings