Author: Jan B. Parker

Artist/writer Jan B. Parker lives and works in a small southern town just south of Raleigh, NC. Her latest publications may be found in Voices From the Porch, a Main Street Rag anthology (Dec 2013) and Writing Through Your Divorce: The Blog (also 12-13). Jan's in the fourth year of running Third Thursday Open Mic Night, a popular event for poets and writers, now held at Stars Theater in the historic district of Fuquay-Varina, NC. She is a trustee of the NC Writers’ Network. Please check out Jan's website and visit her on Facebook.

A New and Different Summer by Jan Parker

Posted on Jan 14, 2014Feb 14, 2019 by Jan B. Parker

That sun burned in an odd way that summer, hotter with wicked solar flares and meaner with intense magnetic disturbances. The crazy heat of it had crisped the skins of EmLee, Cathy, and Morry as they walked along doing nothing. Glad to reach the shade of the big magnolia, the thirteen-year-olds sprawled beneath its arching […]