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New Release Exclusive Excerpt – It Hurts Every Time
As part of the Book Tour celebrating the December 1st Release, here is an exclusive excerpt from It Hurts Every Time Read more
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Bucks County Short Story Award, 2nd Place
he Bucks County Short Fiction Contest is pleased to announce the winners for the Fall 2023 contest. LCW Allingham won second place for “Cellar Door.” Read more
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Lots of News on the Way
They say when it rains it pours but my goodness. Read more
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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: 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: 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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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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When they talk about “talent”
When they say “you’re so talented” they are saying they don’t know. They think the words bubbled up from that magic source within you coherent and edited. That the story was fully formed with no plot holes. They think that all of it just sat down nicely on a page while you sipped your morning Read more
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