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Elizabeth Gaucher

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Elizabeth Damewood Gaucher is a writer living with her husband and young daughter in Vermont.

Growing up in Charleston, West Virginia, meant town and country storytelling all of the time. Her mother’s father was one of ten children, born to a coal miner in the New River Gorge. Her father’s mother mowed the grass in high heels on Virginia Street in Charleston into her nineties, having been a young adult cutting more than few rugs in the Roaring Twenties. It was, as they say, always on.

Gaucher’s essay, “Farm Dogs,” received a Judge’s Choice award in 2014 from Silas House’s literary journal, Still. Her published work appears in books by Westminster John Knox Press, Seventh Star Press, and Visibility Press; and various online essays and op-eds a ...more

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The Happy City

From books. Christ, they could have learned it from books. But books were being banned. She touched the warm wet spot on her head from where she struck the wall. The jubilant folks singing carols outside her door were singing full-throated about eternal life, and she let herself wonder about comfort and joy. She let … Continue reading The Happy City Read more of this blog post »

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	Between The Lines by Michael Knost (Editor), Elizabeth Gaucher (Goodreads Author), Nicole E. Castle 4.25 avg rating — 4 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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Elizabeth’s Quotes

“Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.”
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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
― Miles Davis

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“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

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