Tenderness and Troubling Times: A Collection of Stories
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www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2019/10/the-door-by-tara-wine-queen.html?m=1 “The Door” follows a rehabilitated drug addict as she tries to save her terminally ill child through otherworldly paths.
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"An Appalachian Story" - “An Appalachian Story” was written from my experience living in West Virginia the whole of my life and witnessing its beautiful and proud people suffering through any number of inescapable circles. Some cycles just don't want to be broken.
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"Prisons"- Friendship blooms between two prisoners over books, breakfast, and bullshit. One of them develops dementia, and the younger one becomes his caretaker in this lengthy piece set in a post-WWIII Appalachian prison.
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"Finding Freedom Through Faith"; "Cursed Devotion"; "Cartography" - Three flash pieces are highlighted over at Maudlin House.
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"Pretend Conversations a Regretful Father has with His Deceased Lesbian Daughter" - There is no regret like that which death takes away the possibility to ever make right.
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"One More Thing to Make You Proud" - My oldest, saddest piece. |