Cowboy Dreams released

You can now buy this story and contribute toward charity for Ukraine – **All royalties from this book through December 2025 will be donated bi-monthly to Nova Ukraine – a 501(c)(3) registered nonprofit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine** I hope people have as much fun reading about Joe and Sylvester as I had writing them. Universal link: https://books2read.com/CowboyDreamsKaje Excerpt: (Folks who read the first 1/5 of this novella as a short story … Read more

A new story coming for Ukraine charity

Hey folks – bad news, good news 🙂 You may remember that I was talking about writing a story for a Ukraine charity anthology that was being organized by another author. That anthology was rather unceremoniously dropped at a very late stage, which means we all had our stories ready to go. I’m really sad not to see it come to fruition, since we had both M/M and M/F stories in it. But on the … Read more

Necromancer novella “Saved by the Rat” now wide

For those who didn’t pick up my 17,000 word contemporary Necromancer story Saved by the Rat when it was free, the novella is now available wide – https://books2read.com/SavedByTheRatKaje Meet Robin – short, bespectacled, young manager of his uncle’s store and no-one’s pushover. Meet Alaric – temporary employee of said store with more to worry about than a cute, self-important manager. Namely, finding an evil grimoire bound in human skin. Meet Harry – Alaric’s rat familiar … Read more

Free Necromancer Novella – Saved by the Rat

For the month of February, you can download 7 Workplace-romance novellas from various authors for free from Book Funnel. And when I was asked to contribute, what I came up with was a contemporary-paranormal (was supposed to be just contemporary. Oops) set in the modern-day Necromancer world. Robin I’ve been managing my uncle’s secondhand building-supply center long enough to know that I need to make an impression on new employees first. I’m five-foot-two and skinny … Read more

Favorite Reads of 2024

Little boy hugging a book

Here we are again, counting down to new year. And whatever else 2024 brought, it gave me some books I really enjoyed. In no particular order: Cicadas by Avery Cockburn In 1987, as the cicadas emerged from their 17 year nap in a cacophony of sounds, Joel and Danny met. Once innocent day where the most they did was dance, stoned, in a sunlit meadow and yet, they forged a connection that neither one forgot, … Read more

Sunday Stories – Holiday Traditions

My Sunday story – once again stretched past Facebook tolerances so here is this year’s version of a holiday story, and very best wishes for a happy holiday season to you all.   Holiday Traditions   “Excuse me, Doc?” I looked up from my tablet, not sorry to have someone interrupting year-end inventory. No matter how smart the system was supposed to be, I still had to count the syntha-skin patches and analgese-tab bottles by … Read more

Sunday Stories – And the Truth Shall Set You Free

Hey folks, once again, Facebook decided original fiction 3600 words long must be “trying to get likes in a deceptive way” and pulled it as spam. Which is a win for you folks NOT on Facebook, since this week’s story is here once again.     And the Truth Shall Set You Free Adam “Maybe this is a bad idea.” I froze in the doorway to the small cafe. Mark grabbed my arm to keep … Read more

Sunday Stories – Keeping the Date (2)

This is part 2 for It’s a Date that I put up last week. You can find part 1 here: https://www.kajeharper.com/?p=3825 Folks on my group wanted something more solid for these guys than the tentative hope at the end of last week’s story, so here’s a follow-up. Do read part 1 first.     Keeping the Date Colton I pulled a hairnet down over my ears and tucked in a stray bit of hair off … Read more

Sunday stories – It’s a Date

And once again, Facebook has decided my short story must be spam. So here’s the story for Sunday Dec 1, 2024. (Note – there is now a part 2 to this story here on my website – link is at the bottom.)   It’s a Date Marshall I could tell he was a newbie at one glance. His hair was clean, for one thing. He sat at the table in front of his tray of … Read more

“Unmasked” is now available wide

For those of you who missed my Halloween “Hidden Wolves” novella that was briefly available, I have now put it up for sale. You can find it on AZ, Google Play, and Smashwords, with other wide locations to come. 20,000 words, $1.99 I got this great new cover for it from Jo Clement – the human MC is said to look like Clark Kent and this guy is perfect 😀 If you got the freebie … Read more