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Excerpt from Arson – A Novel

Ansie Ehrke — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Twenty-three years had passed since DJ’s late father, Don Sr., had donned his uniform, and now it was his turn. He was a proud member of Engine 4, working alongside a dedicated team of firefighters. The city of Newark was still bustling with life and stories, but the faces and the challenges had evolved. As […]

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Nurse Angela

Ansie Ehrke — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 21:27:21 +0000

Being a nurse in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts was easy. Being a nurse with borderline personality disorder was not that easy. For Angela, life at the hospital was filled with emotions and sights that made her insides twitch. To cope with these strange sensations she could not quite comprehend herself, she made a habit of silently […]

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Mad Man Max

Ansie Ehrke — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:22:23 +0000

Max was just a 35-year-old, single man. There was nothing spectacular about him. He had an ordinary job in an ordinary town. He was very content at his stage of life. That was until the man in the black coat started following him. The office was in its usual Friday afternoon buzz. The weekend was […]

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