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Category Archives: Writing fiction
Chapter 6 of Summer of the Netherfield Witch
Jane Harris is fourteen years old. So, naturally, she thinks she’s the most rational person around. It’s just the rest of the world that is so irrational. That includes authority figures, friends, enemies, and total strangers. So just where is … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, Fiction, Magic, supernatural, Writing
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Beginning a new serial: Summer of the Netherfield Witch
Now that I’ve had a month to rest, it’s time to start up a new story. It’s a comedy. How can it not be a comedy? It’s set in a minor vacation resort, where people are happy at their leisure. … Continue reading
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Tagged Berkshires, Fiction, Magic, supernatural, witch, Writing
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Looking ahead and behind, though not both at once
I’m snowed in today, and the class I’m teaching on “Pirates!” is cancelled for tonight, so it’s a good time to reflect. Where had this blog been? Where is it going? If you’re short on time, the most important news … Continue reading
Posted in Dragon Lady, Martha's Children, Nightfeather, Prophecies and Penalties, Writing fiction
Tagged Blogging, Fiction, Writing
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The final chapter of Prophecies and Penalties
It’s been a long road for Emily Fisher since she came to Quasopon to solve the murder of Stephen Nash, a member of the High Council of the Children of the New Revelation. She met the Prophesied One and became … Continue reading
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Tagged detective story, Fiction, murder mystery, religious commune, Vermont, Writing
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This year’s Christmas ghost story: When the ghost came in from the cold
You all know about Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Tiny Tim, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and all that. Whether he started it or not, Dickens supported the tradition of ghost stories at Christmas time for … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas ghost story, Fiction, ghost story, supernatural, Writing
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Chapter 45 of Prophecies and Penalties
When you understand that suicidal thoughts among the Children of the New Revelation are considered signs of demonic possession, you can understand how shocking it is for Hannah Priest Wyatt, an Instrument of the Divine, to be having such thoughts. … Continue reading
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Tagged detective story, Fiction, murder mystery, religious commune, Vermont, Writing
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Chapter 44 of Prophecies and Penalties
Emily Fisher really, really doesn’t want to be the Prophesied One of the Children of the New Revelation. Pity, then, that at least half a dozen people already know she is. Because if people think you are something, they will … Continue reading
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Tagged detective story, Fiction, murder mystery, religious commune, Vermont, Writing
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Prophecies and Penalties chapter 43
Murder solved. But one sister is missing, and another is slipping away. Emily Fisher can’t seem to catch a break. And the Divine only knows what the High Council of the Children of the New Revelation has in mind for … Continue reading
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Tagged detective story, Fiction, murder mystery, religious commune, Vermont, Writing
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Chapter 42 of Prophecies and Penalties
Emily Fisher has to decide on whether she will become the guardian of the plaza on Sacred Mountain. She also needs to get ready to leave with her sister Elsie and the emotionally shattered Jezebel Johnson. Pity those two responsibilities … Continue reading
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Tagged detective story, Fiction, murder mystery, Norns, religious commune, Vermont, Writing
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Chapter 41 of Prophecies and Penalties
Everything is connected. The secret paths linked all the most important places in the lands of the Children of the New Revelation. And now they aren’t working well. They almost killed Emily Fisher. And the problem doesn’t end there . … Continue reading
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