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“We write to create the books that we would like to read, that haven’t yet been written—possibly.”—Joyce Carol Oates

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by Jennifer Frost

17 October 2021 Fludd by Hilary Mantel Next on my reading list, Mantel’s novel (first published in 1989) promises a brooding tale for dark autumn evenings under a cozy quilt. While she has become well known in recent years for her prize-winning trilogy of historical novels following the life of Thomas Cromwell, the Guardian announced…
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Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular

by Jennifer Frost

By Rust Hill Rust Hill introduces his book and himself as if addressing a writers’ conference, standing before a group of hungry young writers ready to absorb all they can. He writes with confidence and the experience of thirty years editing magazine fiction as he walks his audience of would-be authors through the basics of…
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Real Writer

by Jennifer Frost

Meg looked up from her keyboard when the outer door opened and a smart young woman entered.
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Mr. Harris

by Jennifer Frost

I close all the windows. The wind is picking up & the dust will blow in. In the streaming sunshine, a man walks alone on the dirt road.
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A Place to Get Away

by Jennifer Frost

Before the wildfire some years back, Grandpa George’s summer place was an ageing cabin, a relic from a time when the mountain resort was a novelty to city dwellers, a picturesque place to get away an hour’s drive from downtown.
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