Patchwork a Serialized Novel

1980 Jake knocked on the white door of the 1850 cottage at 2318 Williams, a block from Augusta College and …

1937 The Chinese woman ran away as entire blocks of homes burned in the city below. Sugar stared in disbelief …

1981 Jake poured himself another beer on the slate terrace and looked around the party amidst the blooming Formosa azaleas …

1937 Alex stumbled toward the gate of the diplomatic compound in Anqing as the sun rose above the harbor below. …

1901 Grace unscrewed the braces from Sugar’s legs as slowly as she could – delaying the torture. The middle Georgia …

1920 Sugar lurched in the tiny bathroom when the ship dropped anchor. She pulled back the curtain and saw dozens …

1902 The train trip and ride from Grand Central had exhausted Sugar. At six years old, New York overwhelmed her. …

1981 An electric current circled through Jake as he watched her close her eyes, turn forward and continue down the …

1932 Alex led Sugar on his arm on a long walk from the park at Dahu Lake to the Yangtze …

1945 Sugar and David lay in the mud by the barbed wire fence, trying to soak moisture from last night’s …

1941 The Japanese soldier poked Alex, Sugar and David with his bayonet as they stumbled up the ramp to the …

1919 Phinizy grabbed the gravy boat, throwing it at Sugar across the Sunday dinner table. Sugar dodged left in time. …

2014 Jake stepped off the elevator onto the fourth floor of the Blue Goose and saw David waiting. “I wanted …

1938 Sugar took her baby from the Chinese nursemaid after David’s morning feeding. She studied his sweet face, looking first …

1931 Sugar heard the men walking behind her, keeping her pace. They’d followed her from the market on the Yangtze, …

1909 Standing in the parlor of one of the Macon Magnolia sororities she was hoping to join, Sugar realized she …

1944 On the second anniversary of their internment inside the abandoned Anqing College, Sugar gazed at the book collection that …

1992 Jake waited for Fiona to drive home and tiptoe into bed. He listened while she reached under the pillow …

1920 “This is your doing,” Phinizy shouted at Grace. “You’ve been putting crazy ideas in her head since you nursed …

1944 Sugar knelt beside her dying husband and patted his legs, grotesquely swollen by the kidney disease that now, untreated …

1945 The skies above the prison camp that had been their home for nearly four years were ablaze with colorful …

This week we are pleased to offer the final chapter of Patchwork, our serialized novel that has graced each issue …