Blue Ships Publishing

There’s nothing like slow-cooked chili. That’s my new favorite thing to cook and eat. I like to make it with at least two different types of beans, tomato sauce or just the bean juice depending on how they’re cooked. Sometimes I cook the beans until they’re nice a creamy and…

“Reich,” Bishop said. They both put their heads up and stared at with attention. Judian more than Judith. “We have a plane crashed in Alaska. We need you to go retrieve its contents. A black box.” “What’s in it?” Judith asked. He stared at her, but ignored her question. “We’re…

They’d sat staring at each other’s eyes for hours. He was going to learn telepathy if it killed him. And she was just the one to teach him. Him, she could teach a lot of things. Telepathy. Chemistry. Biology. Anything she wanted. And he’d willing let her. Right now, he…

“Why does everyone think I’m gay,” Phil asked. Four people in the room, and no one wanted to answer that question. This is what best friends were for, to handle straight forward issues like this. But his best friend was my husband…who also thought he was gay. Which is why…

Use an appliance in the first paragraph. “If you can’t handle the kitchen, stay out…of…the…oven…or something like that.” Judian stared at Judith with a frown and irritation practically blowing out her ears. “No. it’s nothing like that. How do you…I have never known anyone who habitually gets idioms wrong. How…