http://www.reneeasher.com New home of Reckless Abandon. Under construction--Please bear with us! Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:08:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the only remaining excerpt from a novel I was working on tentatively titled "The Holly". Currently, the rest of it is hidden away on a hard drive I hope to recover soon...please remember to leave feedback! The first time I visited Dr. Adams’ home, I was in such a ... http://www.reneeasher.com/?p=18 Big apologies to all the people who "found" me while I was missing all of my log in info for this site! We are back and up and running! Also, looking for someone who may be able to help me deconstruct some of the things I have on this site, a ... http://www.reneeasher.com/?p=16 Continued from "Charlie, Me and the Giant Ball Bearing Pt. 2"The sun was rising over the hills, and it was beautiful. The ball had stopped singing though."Charlie, SHIT! The ball...it's...it's a ball again! And it's quiet".Charlie shook his head and stretched, looking at the alien contraption. "The lights are gone, ... http://www.reneeasher.com/?p=14 disclaimer: language, violence and race sensitive issues, if this stuff bothers you, you should probably leave now, and you should also probably realize that people like YOU who refuse to discuss these things are the reason these things continue to purvey in our society's youth.This is an excerpt from ... http://www.reneeasher.com/?p=13 My jaw hit dirt. Looking inside the teeny door, I realized we were probably in a little trouble. I don't think either of us had thought this through.I looked at Charlie, his eyes the size of sand dollars, jaw in the dirt, and for once, nothing coming out of his ... http://www.reneeasher.com/?p=12 Written from a prompt (the prompt was the first line "How do you think it works"). Hope you enjoy it, as there will be at least one more installment in this story!"How do you think it works?" I asked."Shit, I don't know," that was Charlie, always the eloquent one. What ... http://www.reneeasher.com/?p=11 picks up from here the "smoke in the snowfall" entry left off...He didn’t think they had meant to do it, no one could mean to do that. But all of it looked so planned. He could see her face now, paler than usual, her eyes wide, pupils overcoming her ... http://www.reneeasher.com/?p=10 A very short story about a Nun.She was on her knees in front of the statue of the saint, praying in a feverish, frantic voice, her fingers rubbing over the rosary beads so hard, she worried they may break. She prayed and prayed to the saint to save her ... http://www.reneeasher.com/?p=9 another excerpt from "Saint Impossible". Jude and Roxanne are at a punk club, enjoying the music.The room was too small, way too small, the bass was so low it felt like it was regulating his heartbeat, the electric guitar raised the hair on his sweat slicked arms. Roxanne was laughing ... http://www.reneeasher.com/?p=8 this is an excerpt from an unfinished project about a reporter who becomes infatuated with a female detective who is caught in the middle of a media shit-storm“Sometimes,” she exhaled second hand Marlboro into the air, “It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission”.“So, are you ... http://www.reneeasher.com/?p=7