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Stella: The Mushroom Girl from Outer Space
Stella Walters-Smith is a senior in high school and lives on a dairy farm in western Oregon with her adoptive parents. By something more than chance, she discovers she shares consciousness with a being from another planet. Already socially isolated living on a farm and wary of being too different from other students, she keeps this secret to herself and finds joy in the lush forests around the farm, communing with the plants and the animals and the fungi.
To Stella’s surprise, another high school senior, Travis Hardy, asks her out on her a date, her first. And then another. As their chemistry begins to percolate, Stella worries that telling Travis her secret will ruin their friendship, while not telling him will severely limit it.
When a fellow student’s father goes missing, Travis asks Stella to join him in the search for his friend’s father. In the process of unraveling what becomes an eerie backwoods mystery, they get to know each other in ways neither could have anticipated.
To Stella’s surprise, another high school senior, Travis Hardy, asks her out on her a date, her first. And then another. As their chemistry begins to percolate, Stella worries that telling Travis her secret will ruin their friendship, while not telling him will severely limit it.
When a fellow student’s father goes missing, Travis asks Stella to join him in the search for his friend’s father. In the process of unraveling what becomes an eerie backwoods mystery, they get to know each other in ways neither could have anticipated.
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Published June 20, 2024
About the author
Dan Armstrong
16 books12 followers: Dan Armstrong is a novelist and the owner and operator of the website Mud City Press, an online magazine focusing on the environment and sustainable agriculture.
Dan has published nine novels through Mud City Press. Two, Taming the Dragon (2007) and Prairie Fire (2007), are fast-moving suspense stories written with an environmental backdrop. Puddle of Love (2009) is a racy, contemporary mystery/ghost story set in a brothel in eastern Oregon. Chain of Souls (2010) is an historical novel set in India 1948 after the death of Gandhi. The Eyes of Archimedes Book I: The Siege of Syracuse (2013) , The Eyes of Archimedes Book II: The Death of Marcellus (2015), and The Eyes of Archimedes Book III: Zama (2017) are an historical trilogy set during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC).
Cornelia: The First Woman of Rome (2018) is another historical novel set in Rome (135-121 BC). It follows the life of Cornelia Scipionis and her three children during the first years of the Republic's demise. Blake College (2019) is a supernatural mystery set in Eugene, Oregon in 1970. The Jewel Case (2020) is a historical fiction based on Sigmund Freud's controversial "Dora: An Anaylsis of a Case of Hysteria." Dan has also published an edgy collection of short stories The Open Secret and Twelve Other Tales of the Unknown (2014) .
Dan graduated from Princeton University in 1972 with a BSE in Aerospace Engineering and has been a free-lance writer since 1980. He has published articles in the Register Guard, the Oregonian, the Eugene Magazine, the North Coast Times Eagle, the Eugene Weekly, Locally Grown, Oregon Tilth Magazine, the Landwatch Newsletter, Acres USA, and numerous websites. He is the staff writer for the Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Grain Project. He served for three years on the board of directors for the Lane County Farmers’ Market and was also as a member of the Lane County Food Policy Council from 2008 to 2011. Dan won the Wayne Morris Now Award for community service in 2010. Dan lives in Eugene, Oregon with his wife Judith and has a 32 year-old son, Tyler.
Dan has published nine novels through Mud City Press. Two, Taming the Dragon (2007) and Prairie Fire (2007), are fast-moving suspense stories written with an environmental backdrop. Puddle of Love (2009) is a racy, contemporary mystery/ghost story set in a brothel in eastern Oregon. Chain of Souls (2010) is an historical novel set in India 1948 after the death of Gandhi. The Eyes of Archimedes Book I: The Siege of Syracuse (2013) , The Eyes of Archimedes Book II: The Death of Marcellus (2015), and The Eyes of Archimedes Book III: Zama (2017) are an historical trilogy set during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC).
Cornelia: The First Woman of Rome (2018) is another historical novel set in Rome (135-121 BC). It follows the life of Cornelia Scipionis and her three children during the first years of the Republic's demise. Blake College (2019) is a supernatural mystery set in Eugene, Oregon in 1970. The Jewel Case (2020) is a historical fiction based on Sigmund Freud's controversial "Dora: An Anaylsis of a Case of Hysteria." Dan has also published an edgy collection of short stories The Open Secret and Twelve Other Tales of the Unknown (2014) .
Dan graduated from Princeton University in 1972 with a BSE in Aerospace Engineering and has been a free-lance writer since 1980. He has published articles in the Register Guard, the Oregonian, the Eugene Magazine, the North Coast Times Eagle, the Eugene Weekly, Locally Grown, Oregon Tilth Magazine, the Landwatch Newsletter, Acres USA, and numerous websites. He is the staff writer for the Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Grain Project. He served for three years on the board of directors for the Lane County Farmers’ Market and was also as a member of the Lane County Food Policy Council from 2008 to 2011. Dan won the Wayne Morris Now Award for community service in 2010. Dan lives in Eugene, Oregon with his wife Judith and has a 32 year-old son, Tyler.
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