A Repair Café Mystery · Book TwoOne week to go.
Friends,
Dead Short arrives one week from today, on Saturday, November 14. Pre-order it now and it lands on your Kindle that morning with nothing left for you to do.
This week's piece in The Notebook is about the display itself, the poles down Main and the frame over the crossing, lit every December until the year a lineman died working on it, and dark for the ten years after. Nobody in town ever voted to stop it. It just stopped, and then one year it was voted back. The story begins the morning after that vote.
Delilah
From the Bench
The Lights on Main
Gault Mills once strung its whole main street for Christmas, pole to pole, with a frame over the crossing. It has been dark for ten years. This is what the display was, and what a small town does with a December that has no lights in it.
Also in the notebook
- Announcing Dead Short Dead Short, the second Repair Café Mystery, arrives on Kindle November 14, 2026, and the pre-order is open today. The story is set in Gault Mills at Christmas, and it begins with nine crates of old lights.
- What a Closed Mill Leaves Behind A mill town does not empty all at once, and the mill itself goes last. This is what stays, and why I built my town to keep it.
Whatever I called good would hang over Main, with the town standing under it.
From Dead Short