
Chapters 53 and 54
Ashes to Asheville concludes.
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N. John Shore, Jr. reads from his real-time serial novel, "Ashes to Asheville," a new episode of which is published online every Thursday morning by The Asheville Citizen-Times, the major da...

Ashes to Asheville concludes.

Tammy, in her tub preparing for her meeting with Ryan that night, takes a call.

Tammy gets ready for her final meeting with Ryan, her ex-husband. Sort of.

Before signing his and Tammy's final divorce papers, Ryan gives Tammy a call.

Tammy sinks into her past to find her present.

Enter Isaac.
Tammy goes to find Makayla. They talk. Tammy finds out something about Makayla's boyfriend that ... well, she wouldn't have guessed, to say...

Barry the Architect stops by Tammy's studio. Things between them heat up—and then suddenly stop.

N. John Shore Jr., the author of "Ashes to Asheville," talks about the story and the writing of it on its one-year publishing anniversary.

Tammy and Makayla, post-kiss, talk.

Tammy talks to Leslie about having kissed Makayla the night before.

Tammy and her new friend Makayla share an intimate ... moment.
Tammy comes face-to-face with the reality of actually selling her work.

Completely lost in what's happening to her, Tammy, without thinking about it, agrees to do a thing.

Tammy says good-bye to Charlie at the Asheville Regional Airport.

Tammy learns that Charlie and Todd are leaving Asheville.

Tammy meets three of the artists with whom she shares the floor of the River Arts District building where she has rented a studio.

Tammy tries to do her deepest work. It's not easy, things being as they are.

Tammy knows.

Broke, exhausted, feeling severely underappreciated, Tammy isn't having a very merry Christmas. Then, suddenly, she is.

Tammy meets with Laurel, who has some huge news to share.

Relief. Hope.

Tammy has a nightmare, in which Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and Hillary Clinton appear.

The morning after the 2016 presidential elections.
Tammy meets her new divorce lawyer.

Tammy finds herself at the crossroads between the person she is (and has been), and the person she wants to become.

Frank explains to his grown daughter and her friends why Trump's "noxious crap" wasn't even close to locker room talk. Tammy has trouble wit...

Tammy finds herself on an unexpected date with Barry the Architect (With the Blue Eyes).

Tammy asks Charlie to explain why men are the way they are. Charlie, as it turns out, has given the matter some thought.

Frank tells Tammy of his plans to develop land in her beloved River Arts District. She tries not to have a stroke herself.

While driving Frank home from doctor's, Tammy runs out gas. Literally.

Laurel is rescued in a way that changes her life.

After a night of Wyatt's beating her, Laurel literally takes her life into her hands by attempting to escape from the motel room in which sh...

Tammy, Todd, Maggie, and Leslie (Todd and Maggie's mother) meet a young woman along with her boyfriend, who is clearly abusing her. They do...

Tammy meets Todd and Maggie's father, Frank. She also recieves an upsetting phone call from a former student.

Tammy, Maggie and Sam discuss the movie they just saw, and Tammy gets an unsettling surprise.

Love is in the air. So is something else.

Tammy paints something she never imagined she would. After a phone call from Charlie, things change .

Tammy loses herself in two paintings; rediscovers herself, and runs halfway across a bridge.

Charlie ventures outside for the first time since returning from that terrible night in Orlando.

Charlie attends a party in Orlando. Later that night, with many of those at the party, he goes dancing at the nightclub Pulse.
Tammy's present collides with her past.

Tammy goes to a blues festival--and finds reason to learn what the blues really are.

Tammy realizes something about herself, and Charlie's coming out story.

Tammy's ex husband calls. He says stuff.

A gay man, a young transgender woman, and the pastor of a Southern Baptist mega-church meet inside a barbecue joint in North Carolina.

Tammy participates in Walk a Mile, a fundraiser for Our Voice, Asheville's non-profit organization dedicated to providing services and suppo...

Out with Charlie on New Year's Eve, Tammy meets some interesting people.

Tammy goes to a bad place.

Tammy's gay half-brother, Charlie, phones from Asheville, NC.; Tammy's first morning in Asheville is an intense one.