“The hawk sat on a limb three feet above my head and did not stir as I walked under – that was the first sign.” –
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Results24Sunday Sentence: Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
“What you deserve and what you can stand aren’t necessarily the same thing.” – Kelly Link, Get in Trouble The stories in this collection prove the
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Sunday Sentence: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
“And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.” – E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News The last, perfect line of one of
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Sunday Sentence: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
“A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.” – Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior This is the very first
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Sunday Sentence: Leaving Tinkertown by Tanya Ward Goodman
“I feel my own place in the world dissolving in the tide of Dad’s forgetting.” – Tanya Ward Goodman, Leaving Tinkertown Her father was a an
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Sunday Sentence: Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine
“Maybe hope is the same as breath – part of what it means to be human and alive.” Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely I’ve
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For You: A February Fiction Fest
I’ve been looking forward to this all month. After all the support you have given me, I get to offer a very special giveaway to a
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Sunday Sentence: “Discovery” by Andrew Merton
I love reading them, so now I’m joining the #SundaySentence party started by David Abrams over at the Quivering Pen and on Twitter. It’s not a review. It’s not a
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Chances for Free Copies of Casualties
A quick post to let you know that my publisher is giving away copies of Casualties over on Goodreads. The giveaway begins today and runs right
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Old Yeller and The Repo Man: Thanksgiving 1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnhojq63-Bs The movie is Old Yeller and it plays out on the television in the corner of the hospital room. My son, then eleven, watches from
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