No Through Road

By Terry R Barca

Wendi Radin wants to know how famous husband died and she believes that a newspaper columnist can find the truth. William Fox has a past marked by one shining moment - he’s the one who found those kids when no one else could. His fame cannot protect him from falling in love with the alluring widow. The sex is amazing, but in the cold light of day, his doubts begin to haunt him. He has a decision to make, and that decision may see him lose everything he has worked for.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Terry R Barca
• Release date: Mar 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370901159

Terry R Barca

I’m an author who lives and works in the Dandenong Ranges, on the eastern edge of Melbourne Australia.I take one day at a time but occasionally I’m attacked by several days at once.My amazing wife and I have lived in The Hills for forty-three years.My favourite colour is green and so is my favourite car.I started my working life as a Primary School Teacher in the early 1970s.Since then I have been a stained glass craftsman, furniture restorer, restorer of Player Pianos and music rolls, author (twenty one books so far, seventeen audiobooks, another on the way), photographer, basketball trading card manufacturer, basketball coach, basketball player, basketball referee, part-time shop assistant, newspaper columnist, homeschool dad, husband, father, grandfather, and a few other bits and pieces, and not in this order.I’m fascinated by people, but I prefer the company of dogs.I’m not frightened of dying, but sometimes life scares the hell out of me.I think that birds are cool but I don’t believe that they spend any time thinking about me, even though I give them lots of stale bread, and the occasional pizza crust........ ungrateful bastards!

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Published by Written With A Pencil

© 2018

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

 No Through Road

Wendi Radin wants to know how famous husband died and she believes that a newspaper columnist can find the truth. William Fox has a past marked by one shining moment - he’s the one who found those kids when no one else could. His fame cannot protect him from falling in love with the alluring widow. The sex is amazing, but in the cold light of day, his doubts begin to haunt him. He has a decision to make, and that decision may see him lose everything he has worked for.

Other books by Terry R Barca

Schoome

The Long Weekend

Passerby

Loyal and true

Slightly Spooky Stories

Trust

Red Wheelbarrow

Rufus

Keeper Of Secrets

Bullet To The Heart

DOT, DOT, DOT …

  Thanks, kid. Every little bit helps, I said as the paramedic loaded the victim into the back of the ambulance.

      It wasn’t going to turn into a headline story, but I thanked her all the same.

    This is how the big stories come — tip-offs from cops, ambos, firemen and ordinary people.

      I’m continually rushing — heading to someplace where a bad thing just happened. I get there after the danger has passed. I watch from a distance — somewhere safe, ever vigilant for an angle, a hook, something I can hang the story on. A tug on a heartstring that makes you want to put down three dollars fifty and pick up the Saturday Argus. With a deadline every week I’m always on the lookout for the next story, good or otherwise. Sometimes the otherwise leads to somewhere exotic.

      That’s why I went back to her apartment.

      Her story was old news, but she was stunningly beautiful, and the reception for the newspaper’s latest owner was just an excuse for another bored millionaire to show the world how important he was — not my natural habitat.

      I write a column for a major Australian newspaper — I’m an endangered species.

      I used to believe that what I wrote made a difference, now all I want to do is to continue to put food on my family’s table. These days everyone with an iPhone reports the breaking news, and I bitch about it to anyone who will listen — my wife says I’m turning into my father.

      As I walk away from the departing ambulance, my phone rings — I always answer my phone.

      William Fox — How big was the fire?

      Are there any bodies?

     Thanks. I’ll get right over there.

      Traffic was heavy, which gave me the opportunity to talk to my wife, Meridith when she called.

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