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Kelly Kathleen Ferguson's work has appeared in mental_floss magazine, Poets & Writers, the Gettysburg Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and Brevity, among other publications. She has an MFA from the University of Montana, and working on a PhD in creative nonfiction at Ohio University. Kelly is a Libra, Cancer rising, Aquarian moon. She is Irish/French/German, lapsed Roman Catholic, and right-brained. Kelly once received a minority scholarship for a machinist certification program at Durham Technical Community College. When she was four, she ate a mothball and had to have her stomach pumped, or she would have died.
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Kelly Kathleen Ferguson Great question. I had to think on it. From my childhood, I was partial to Meg Murry and Calvin O'Keefe. How could I resist that the popular kid (altho…moreGreat question. I had to think on it. From my childhood, I was partial to Meg Murry and Calvin O'Keefe. How could I resist that the popular kid (although with problems of his own) was drawn to the moody, difficult, but heroic misfit? In adult fiction, my favs to date would be Macon and Murial from The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler and Quoyle and Wavey Prowse from The Shipping News. I'm drawn to the redemptive arc in these couples. How even if you've suffered, or been an outsider, there is a true love for everyone. That being said, I'm still totally in for Austin AND all the rewrites! (less)
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“Pictures of the Dead,” (short story) Yemassee, Summer 2017

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“There’s a danger in looking up past loves. It’s usually best to keep sacred memories sacred, or they are bound to disappoint.”
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“Still, I found the idea of an aesthetic life to be tremendously compelling. It was the first time I had heard of an organizing principle or goal you could have for your life, other than making money and having kids. Nobody ever said that that was their organizing principle, but I had often noticed it, when I was growing up: the way adults acted as though trying to go anywhere or achieve anything was a frivolous dream, a luxury, compared to the real work of having kids and making money to pay for the kids.”
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