Authors
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Dori Lumpkin
It isn’t really a surprise to me that this legend is so especially pervasive. I think that it makes a lot of sense that we want to explain something tragic or traumatic with the supernatural. Grief is handled in so many different and interesting ways, and the creation of urban legends like the cry baby… Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Jeff Provine
In my folklore research, I’ve come across some twenty different bridges in Oklahoma all claiming to be “the real” Cry Baby Bridge. One of them, which inspired my story, is the “Ghost Boy Bridge” Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Cat Voleur
I’ve always been interested in local legends, and had heard of these bridges in the US all my life. Last year, when doing urban legend research for a different project, I found out how close I had grown up to one of the Cry Baby Bridges, and after a brief visit I felt compelled to… Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Ray Daley
follow writers in your genre and support them. Lift them when they are down, cheer their wins, commiserate their losses. Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Ef Deal
I think the truth lies in the definition of a bridge as a passage; some people don’t quite make it across. Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Brent Salish
When we consider a bridge, we cannot help but think of what it crosses. But what if we didn’t understand why the bridge existed? Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: William J. Donahue
…I remembered a particular covered bridge in upstate New York, where my wife and I go once or twice a year to hike in the Adirondacks. The main character, Hannah, and the circumstances she faces came to me almost immediately. Read more
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Natalie Zellat Dyen: Fifteen Second Feature # 4
I marched for reproductive rights in the late 60s, and it’s disgusting that I have to do it all over again. Read more
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Helen Chapman/Anne Arrandale – Fifteen Second Feature #3
People tried to discourage me, saying I’d be 43 when I graduated college. I told them I’ll be 43 in three years anyway. I Read more
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Dori Lumpkin – Fifteen Second Feature # 2
At any given point in time, I’m working on at least 10 different projects. They’re usually short fiction, so I need a bunch of them to keep my mind occupied. Read more
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