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Patricia Flaherty Pagan

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in Boston, The United States

June 12

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Patricia Flaherty Pagan is the award-winning author of “Trail Ways Pilgrims” and “Enduring Spirit: Stories.” She teaches flash fiction writing online for Writespace. She lives in a brown house near the sea with her family and her three mischievous rescue cats.

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	Up, Do: Flash Fiction by Women Writers by Patricia Flaherty Pagan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kathryn Kulpa (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Beverly C. Lucey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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
	Eve's Requiem: Tales of Women, Mystery and Horror 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014	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
	Approaching Footsteps by Patricia Flaherty Pagan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Donna Hill (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Leeper 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Trail Ways Pilgrims: Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	In the Questions: Poetry by and about Strong Women by Patricia Flaherty Pagan (Goodreads Author) (Editor ), Melissa J. Lytton (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	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
	Enduring Spirit: Stories 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	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
	Enduring Spirit: Stories (The Crossroads Collection #2) 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	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
	Eve's Requiem: Tales of Women, Mystery, and Horror it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	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
	Specters and Spells it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	In the Questions: Poetry by and about Strong Women by Patricia Flaherty Pagan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gay Yellen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 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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“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

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“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

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“If you lack confidence in setting one word after another and sense that you are stuck in a place from which you will never be set free, if you feel sure that you will never make it and were not cut out to do this, if your prose seems stillborn and you completely lack confidence, you must be a writer.”
― John McPhee

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