Splashes — Teresa Millias

Splashes come suddenly! They can surprise; they can drench. They can bring a laugh or a scowl. They are not mundane or monotonous, but ticklish-ly uncertain!

We wait for splashes; we want to be doused with the unexpected as does the fourth book in the Stories from Lone Moon Creek series: Splashes.

Where, but in rural America, can the most unexpected, often alarming, saturated jolts of surprise take place? Where other than in Teresa Millias' new 22 stories in Splashes.

Just as a creek keeps moving, more characters are continuously introduced along with those familiar from the first three volumes. The disclosure of returning characters adds a further ‘splash' to those skipping across the slippery stones of Lone Moon Creek.

Marjory and Agnes continue to escort readers into the chapters, but be prepared to encounter the inexplicable bombshells from the nativity and pureness of Marjory as the two characters appear in stories of their own.

Of great curiosity as well, is the enigma of nature upon the small town. What is the phenomenon of a double moon or a garden that can grow a girl into a woman; or cyberspace that can be explained by a hermit or a hellacious icy road that can bring about honesty? Can a barn owl retain the history of a farm for generations or a train rumble overtop of a house with the inhabitant hearing every pulse of the community? Something unexplainable splashes across the trajectory of the hamlet.

So step in or step back, either way you're going to get splashed!