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Storm Watch
As storm winds pick up, Betsy prepares dinner and waits for her husband to come home. Drunk, this time? When he comes in trailing venom, she sits with her young son on a kitchen chair and waits for him to wear himself out while the storm builds . . .and builds.
14 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 16, 2012
About the author
Faith A. Colburn
11 books24 followersAs the daughter of a big band canary, Faith A. Colburn has unique insights into the backstage lives of the women who sang for their supper during some very hard times. Her other half, a combat veteran and farmer, provided some very different perspectives. With her grandmother, she walked the prairies, getting to know the wildflowers, while she waited for the two halves to finish their struggle to make a whole. She’s the award-winning author of fiction and narrative non-fiction that reveals the character of the prairie and its people, combining careful research with a plainswoman’s passion for her place.
Walking the grasslands, she smelled tiny onion blossoms so sweet they’ll make your ears ring and watched pronuba moths fall like petals from the waxy, white blossoms of yucca. As a public information officer for the state Game and Parks Commission, she canoed the Dismal, rode the Sandhills with dog trainers, cross country skied the Missouri bluffs, seined carp, fixed nets, picked trout eggs, and camped out along Bone Creek. She photographed wildlife, from Sandhill cranes to elk and, as a sixth-generation Nebraskan, knows of the landscape that often appears as a character/catalyst in her work.
The themes she returns to, over and over, are the ways in which families and communities work and how they fail. She's passionate about those families and communities as well as the physical environments that allow them to thrive.
She earned master’s degrees in creative writing and journalism from the University of Nebraska receiving the Outstanding Thesis in the College of Fine Arts and Humanities in 2012 and the Outstanding Work in Fiction Award during its 2009 student conference. Her family memoir FROM PICAS TO BYTES: FOUR GENERATIONS OF SEACREST NEWSPAPER SERVICE TO NEBRASKA received the second place award in adult non-fiction from the Nebraska Federation of Press Women. Her fiction has appeared in Kinesis and Platte Valley Review, and her poetry has been published in The Reynolds Review. While at the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, she wrote numerous articles for NEBRASKAland magazine, including a Centennial history of game and fish management in Nebraska that appeared as a special issue called Sportsman’s Scrapbook.
Walking the grasslands, she smelled tiny onion blossoms so sweet they’ll make your ears ring and watched pronuba moths fall like petals from the waxy, white blossoms of yucca. As a public information officer for the state Game and Parks Commission, she canoed the Dismal, rode the Sandhills with dog trainers, cross country skied the Missouri bluffs, seined carp, fixed nets, picked trout eggs, and camped out along Bone Creek. She photographed wildlife, from Sandhill cranes to elk and, as a sixth-generation Nebraskan, knows of the landscape that often appears as a character/catalyst in her work.
The themes she returns to, over and over, are the ways in which families and communities work and how they fail. She's passionate about those families and communities as well as the physical environments that allow them to thrive.
She earned master’s degrees in creative writing and journalism from the University of Nebraska receiving the Outstanding Thesis in the College of Fine Arts and Humanities in 2012 and the Outstanding Work in Fiction Award during its 2009 student conference. Her family memoir FROM PICAS TO BYTES: FOUR GENERATIONS OF SEACREST NEWSPAPER SERVICE TO NEBRASKA received the second place award in adult non-fiction from the Nebraska Federation of Press Women. Her fiction has appeared in Kinesis and Platte Valley Review, and her poetry has been published in The Reynolds Review. While at the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, she wrote numerous articles for NEBRASKAland magazine, including a Centennial history of game and fish management in Nebraska that appeared as a special issue called Sportsman’s Scrapbook.
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October 10, 2017
THIS STORY LINE NOT ABOUT WEATHER BUT A WEATHERED WOMEN
THIS BOOK IS A ABUSE ROMANCE IN MY OPINION THEY ARE THE BEST KIND THEY ARE A THRILL RIDE BEGINNING TO END AND YOU CANT PUT YOUR KEEP KINDLE DOWN LIKE I DID WITH THIS STORY LINE!?!?I HAD ONE PROBLEM WITH BOOK SOOOOOOOOOO SHORTTTTTTTTTTT!?!READ TIME 30MIN. UNDER 18 PGS LONG!?!THIS IS EXCELLENT AUTHORESS!?!STRUCTURE WAS EXCELLENT NO SPACES IN BETWEEN SENTENCES PARAGRAPHS!?! NO PRONAGRAPHY OR PROFANITY!?!BECAUSE OF SUBJECT MATTER RAT(PG-14) AWESOME BOOK WISH IT WAS LONGER CONSIDERED SHORT STORY!?!ASH BOORER IN A BOOK ROMANS16:16
THIS BOOK IS A ABUSE ROMANCE IN MY OPINION THEY ARE THE BEST KIND THEY ARE A THRILL RIDE BEGINNING TO END AND YOU CANT PUT YOUR KEEP KINDLE DOWN LIKE I DID WITH THIS STORY LINE!?!?I HAD ONE PROBLEM WITH BOOK SOOOOOOOOOO SHORTTTTTTTTTTT!?!READ TIME 30MIN. UNDER 18 PGS LONG!?!THIS IS EXCELLENT AUTHORESS!?!STRUCTURE WAS EXCELLENT NO SPACES IN BETWEEN SENTENCES PARAGRAPHS!?! NO PRONAGRAPHY OR PROFANITY!?!BECAUSE OF SUBJECT MATTER RAT(PG-14) AWESOME BOOK WISH IT WAS LONGER CONSIDERED SHORT STORY!?!ASH BOORER IN A BOOK ROMANS16:16
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