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Elle Stockton

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Born
San Francisco, The United States
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Influences
William S. Porter (O. Henry stories) and Edgar Allan Poe

Member Since
September 2020


Elle Stockton a.k.a. Robin B. Stockton, born in San Francisco, resides with her husband in Southern California. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in motion picture-television writing.

She is a ten-time award-winning author who has written four books of short stories in her series: Fictional tales on a ride of twists, turns, and the unexpected—Deadly Geminis and Other Short Stories, Not for Polite Society and Other Short Stories, Bourbon Street Nocturne and Other Short Stories and Harvest Moon Wish and Other Short Stories.

Villains get what's coming to them from ghosts, hungry gators and the devil himself in "Deadly Geminis and Other Short Stories" Stockton's new tales of deceit, danger and
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Elle Stockton My fourth book, which was published on May 13 - 14, 2023.
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