Keeping Faith: Chapter 1 Part II

March 12, 2010 By cindy

Keeping Faith by Cindy Bradford (serial 3)

Chapter 1 continued

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When the whistle blew signaling time was up, the boys formed a line, each team dropping their findings on the ground in front of them. As the judging began, it looked promising for Patrick and Mikey until they saw two other boys who also had everything on the list; their arrowhead, though a little larger, looked to be in about the same crooked shape as Patrick and Mikey’s. [Read more…] about Keeping Faith: Chapter 1 Part II

Keeping Faith – Growing To Like Patrick

March 8, 2010 By cindy

Patrick from Keeping Faith by Cindy Bradford — Growing to Like Patrick

Several of you have told me you didn’t like Patrick at the beginning of Keeping Faith, but grew to like him as you progressed through the book. Congratulations, you took the hook. That is exactly what I wanted to happen. Actually, I didn’t even like him at first so what could I expect you to do differently? [Read more…] about Keeping Faith – Growing To Like Patrick

Keeping Faith: Chapter 1 Part 1

March 5, 2010 By cindy

Keeping Faith by Cindy Bradford (serial 2)

chapter 1

Boston, 1962

Patrick woke, startled, hearing a rustling noise. Reaching quickly to push back the heavy canvas, he found it zipped closed. Darkness swallowed him. In the airless, musty pup tent, he felt trapped. Sweat beaded on his forehead, when suddenly he heard another sound and felt the presence of someone.

“Shh.”

Then Patrick felt a body pressing against him and a clammy hand cover his mouth. [Read more…] about Keeping Faith: Chapter 1 Part 1

Keeping Faith — Who is Faith?

March 1, 2010 By cindy

Keeping Faith by Cindy Bradford — Faith was the catalyst for Keeping Faith

By now, you probably know that Faith is the main character in Promises Kept. (If you would like to download the excerpt, you can by subscribing to my newsletter). Faith was such an easy character to develop because I have known a hundred Faiths. She simply evolved from her East Texas setting, and was actually the catalyst for Keeping Faith. [Read more…] about Keeping Faith — Who is Faith?

Keeping Faith: Prologue

February 26, 2010 By cindy

Keeping Faith by Cindy Bradford (serial 1)

prologue

East Texas, 1991

Faith O’Brien had been looking for her father for as long as she could remember. From a slight glance out of her upstairs bedroom window at a lone passerby to a concentrated scrutiny of familiar faces she saw each autumn Friday night in the crowded wooden bleachers of the high school stadium, she searched. With a single, faded black and white photograph that she took often from a worn little box that held her only other connection to him–a tiny gold ring he had given her mother the first year they dated, she had tried to picture him, studying every tiny detail of the handsome nineteen year old boy with a crooked grin, leaning against an old, but shiny Oldsmobile. [Read more…] about Keeping Faith: Prologue

Wonder Where Gary Lynn Went?

February 24, 2010 By cindy

A friend, who knows me well and read Keeping Faith, said she thinks she has me figured out as to why I like to write and spin stories. She said it is because as a kid I played by myself a lot and had an invisible friend. She may be on to something because I did play by myself a great deal because there were no other kids my age in the neighborhood and no cousins or siblings close to my age. [Read more…] about Wonder Where Gary Lynn Went?

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