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Worse than Strangers

The following is an excerpt from the prologue of Kyleigh Leddy's novel, Worse than Strangers. ***LottieOctober 11, 1998—Nantucket IslandRegret isn’t passive. It’s not something you can stuff away, suppress deeper and deeper. The less you tend to it, the more...
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Burying the Typewriter

The following is an excerpt from a new edition of Carmen Bugan's memoir, Burying the Typewriter.***Old PhotographsEvery few weeks my mother rearranges the family pictures around the house. She also moves the beds and the rugs, and she places every...
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Why Write Your Family’s Story?

For much of my childhood in the 1980s, my mother served up Chinese fast food from a stand in a second-rate suburban mall. Her customers were mostly teens from the local high school and elderly regulars who mall-walked throughout winter,...

The Essential Storytelling Device that Fuels Superman and The Matrix

I am both proud and slightly horrified to say that my first published novel took over a year to write, and three long years to rewrite. And that’s not counting the failed book projects that preceded it over the previous...