Tag: Fiction
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The Monkey on Her Back by Lily Iona MacKenzie
It crept up on her, starting just before her 62nd birthday: something wasn’t quite right with her body. Her stomach felt gassy at times, bloated and unsettled. No pain. An old malady for her, periodically she had attacks of gas and spasms, but she assumed it was irritable bowel syndrome. Still, Laura’s new doctor wanted…
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June the Prune and Lady Bird – Cancer Stinks! by Gracie Bradford
What goes through a person’s mind when isolated in a hospital room away from friends, relatives, and trustworthy pets? June is a 10-year-old feisty girl who goes through unusual life’s challenges in the midst of unimaginable encounters with adults and her imaginary friends Chemo, Rad, Ed, Captain Jeff and Doctor Treehouse. Her dog, Lady Bird,…
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Lily Iona Mackenzie, Author of Fling!
When and why did you begin writing? I don’t think I had any choice. Writing is as necessary to me as eating, and if I don’t write each day, I become irritable and unpleasant to live with. Ask my husband! When I was 13, I started a diary, but I was afraid someone would see…
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Cory Clement, Author of Farewell Keystone
When and why did you begin writing? As cheesy as it sounds, I tend to go with the reply that the writing chose me, not the other way around. It started out as a fun, time-passing outlet and grew into my purest form of therapy, explaining, conversing. It’s the only way I know how to…
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Nane Quartay, Author of Feel the Fire
When and why did you begin writing? My writing career began late in life… I was in my thirties… but it began because of the silly notion I had that since it was so easy to read, writing had to be a snap! Do I need to tell you how misguided that notion was? When…
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Broken & Damaged Love by TL Clark
A CSA survivor battles her demons and discovers love on her path to recovery. Tina is a fictional character, but sadly her story is all too real for many out there. This book has been written to offer hope to survivors of child sex abuse, and to help inform the general public of the signs to…
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M.R.Darling, Author of A Blue Horizon
When and why did you begin writing? I remember trying to write at a young age when my mother bought a typewriter. I folded the paper in half and placed it in sideways so I could make my story look like a real book. Aside from the title, I don’t recall much about it now.…
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Meet Lena Roach, Author of Whispers of the Past
On when she got interested in writing… As a first-grade pupil in the country town of Vidrine, Louisiana, my teacher inspired me with her daily poetry and short story readings to the class. Besides, as a piano student eager to learn more about rhyme and rhythm, my first writings turned to poetry.
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J. Guenther, Author of In the Mouth of the Lion
When and why did you begin writing? After high school, several friends attended colleges far away. I began typing six to twelve-page notes, trying to amuse them with letters like I’d want to get myself. It was a lot of fun, a feeling I try to put into my writing.
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James Halat, Author of The Story of Teddy and Eddie
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing in the fifth grade. I was fortunate enough to have a teacher who read books to us like we were first graders, and then she asked us to write our own stories to read to the class. This is where I learned that my words…
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