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in Bonne Terre, The United States

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Historical Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction

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When did I begin telling stories? Probably when I was a child and, late at night before the blue TV screen (I was born in 1952, so this was in the fifties), Mother was tired of telling me stories so I told her my own as ice tinkled in our tea glasses, and she lay back on the sofa to listen, pillows and blankets nestled around her. She slept on the sofa a lot. it was a tepid marriage.
Before I set pen to paper, a lot of things happened. I did the kid thing. I got an education, went to college for awhile, joined the army and went to Germany. I finished my B.A. at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1980, and became, as a bilious old man said to me one night in the shadows of a Civil War re-enactment, another goddamned English major who th ...more

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	The Saint Louisans 2.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Green Path it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Maddening Tune and other stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	On Old 67. : A Missouri Memoir 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Understudy deals with Kit, an opera singer ready to make a great debut in Barbarella, an opera based on a 60's sci-fi film; weird and offbeat, but Kit is ready to sink into it, but so is Yolanda, a quirky and eventually venomous understudy who se ...more
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Unsettled Ground is a strong and probing read for me, as it deals in simple matters of earth, family, and memory, but Claire Fuller is a master gardener of description and emotions. The story deals with Julius and Jeanie, twins who live with their mo ...more
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I was curious about discovering the Louisa May Alcott who crept away from her usual domestic stories of women and girls to enter darker studies of human nature. Alcott admitted she didn't necessarily like the "pap", but it paid well. In Behind a Mask ...more
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Our Souls at Night deals with night thoughts that turn daylight as Addie, a lonely older woman, goes to Louis, a similarly aged man, and asks her to come to bed with him. It's the dream so many teenage boys dream and fantasize over, but Addie isn't i ...more
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