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Tag Archives: Fiction
Chapter 23 of Prophecies and Penalties
Emily Fisher has escaped the spiritual hazards of Sacred Mountain. Now that she’s recovered from her ordeal, it’s time to return to more mundane concerns, such as solving Stephen Nash’s murder. But while she’s been convalescing in Lakeview, new developments … Continue reading
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Tagged detective story, Fiction, murder mystery, religious commune, Vermont, Writing
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Chapter 22 of Prophecies and Penalties
Every step she takes, Emily finds her own past curiously intertwined with the murder investigation she is conducting. So she decides to engage in some spadework, to try to understand some of the strange phenomena she’s encountered by retracing her … Continue reading
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Tagged detective story, Fiction, murder mystery, religious commune, Vermont, Writing
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Chapter 21 of Prophecies and Penalties, whippings and prisons
A whipping? Emily Fisher has never attended one, and never meant to. But a man is being whipped because he spat on her, and the community expects Emily to witness justice. But it is not just the whipped man who … Continue reading
Posted in History, Prophecies and Penalties, Writing fiction
Tagged detective story, Fiction, judicial punishment, murder mystery, Writing
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The middle of the year
Tomorrow is July 1, 2014. Summer officially began with the equinox on June 21. Midsummer Night, June 23, I sometimes sit back with a good drink and read Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I have to admit I didn’t do it … Continue reading
Posted in Writing fiction
Tagged Blogging, creativity, criticism, Fiction, Reading, Tartu, Writing
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A Mary Wilkins-Freeman twofer
Ever hear of Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852 – 1930)? It’s not one of those names that has come ringing down the ages. She was one of those female New England regional writers circa 1900,[i] at a time when the … Continue reading
Posted in Reading fiction, Reviews
Tagged books, Fiction, ghost story, Mary Wilkins Freeman, New England, review, supernatural, William Dean Howells
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Chapter 19 of Prophecies and Penalties, and some niceties of language
For once, Emily Fisher’s investigation of High Council member Stephen Nash’s murder is beginning to look straightforward. All she has to do is go to a place that doesn’t exist, by a transportation system that shouldn’t work, to talk to … Continue reading
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Tagged Breaking the Wave, detective story, Fiction, murder mystery, Tristram Shandy, Writing
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Prophecies and Penalties Chapter 18, and a short vacation
Emily Fisher’s investigation of the murder of High Council member Stephen Nash has taken a giant leap forward, which makes her happy. On the other hand, that leap implicates her sister Elsie, and Elsie’s lover, the so-called Prophesied One, Alex … Continue reading
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Tagged detective story, Fiction, murder mystery, religious commune, Vermont, Writing
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Chapter 17 of Prophecies and Penalties
Finally, Emily Fisher feels she’s making progress. She’s going to get the real story of how High Council member Stephen Nash’s body was found, and maybe even some clues about the murder itself. But first she has to deal with … Continue reading
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Chapter 15 of Prophecies and Penalties
Things begin to heat up in Prophecies and Penalties with chapter 15, “Lost in translation.” As Emily Fisher is about to find out, all sorts of things can be lost in translation: names, places, even herself. Yet somehow she’s stumbling closer … Continue reading
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Tagged detective story, Fiction, murder mystery, religious commune, Vermont, Writing
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Fictional religious communities
There have been a lot of fictional religious communities. The Children of the New Revelation in my running serial Prophecies and Penalties are hardly the first. So I thought I’d take a look at four examples, two from the 19th century, two … Continue reading
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