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Kelley Powell

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Once upon a time there was girl named Kelley. Kelley was terrified of the math centre in her grade school classroom, but man, that creative writing centre made her smile. In her spare time she wrote stories - lots of stories – about rainbows and ghosts and horses named Frankie Hoof Powell. As she grew, she came to believe that being a writer was pretty much impossible, so she decided to do other things. She went to Indonesia and lived in a one-room hut with a family of 6 villagers and accidentally dropped her sarong while bathing in the village river. She got mistaken for a drag queen while teaching English in South Korea; chased monkeys away from children while volunteering in India; and got tricked into marriage in Laos.

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The Merit Birds

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Us Conductors

by Sean Michaels (Goodreads Author)

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The Betrayers

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“I write because I suck at talking. -Kelley Powell”
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“I write because I suck at talking.”
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