Gerrie’s House
Welcome
to my homepage and future home of my e-novels, children’s fiction and possibly,
my book on caring for the homebound.
If
you like what you see, e-mail me at mailto:glhallas@yahoo.com
Adult Fiction:
Crawfish
Boil (romance/mystery)
Jodi,
a New Orleans artist, is faced with divorce, a new love with a jealous ex and a
secret identity. Then her own ex turns up dead in her studio! Set in the city
that is so much more than Mardi Gras.
Read
the prologue and chapter one! Click here to
start! (I’ll add more later).
Children’s Fiction:
Why Turtles Have Shells
(written as Gerrie Cockburn)
Tom
T. Turtle and his family have to find a new home for the winter. Includes
illustrations perfect for printing and coloring.
RA27
Jimmy’s
single birthday wish is a dog of his own. Sometimes, you don’t always get what
you ask for. Sometimes you do!
In
the final stages of editing
Ned the Nearsighted Butterfly – children’s fiction. Just have to finish those illustrations!
Poetry:
I
am also compiling A book of poetry titled: Life, Motherhood and What’s
for Dinner
(At
least I have a title!) Will include my previously published poem, “Quiet
Accomplishment”
Quiet Accomplishment
By Gerrie Hallas
(Published as Gerrie
Cockburn)
Master artists covet my
masterpiece.
Sculptor and painter fail
Rare marble coarse
Vivid canvas dead.
The finest carpenters and
musicians
Abandon tools grown suddenly
unwieldy.
No craftsman can mime the
total perfection
No Man alone can forge an
equal.
Most precious roses
Robbed of sweetness
Wither forgotten
Before the treasure I have
wrought.
Flawless diamonds dull
Fire quenched by the shadow
Of my ultimate
A true wonder.
I pass unnoticed
No recognition gained
For my quiet accomplishment.
Except on Mother’s Day.
