Midwest Secrets

by Maribeth Slovasky

The Midwest...thoughts of long country roads, fields of corn, red barns, white picket fences, and a simple life that is happy and peaceful. Maybe. Small town people are there for each other. Sharing stories in the grocery story, after church, at the barber shop, or over the fence in the backyard is a staple of the culture of the Midwest. Maybe. You see, there are some stories that no one will share...not with acquaintances, neighbors, friends, or even family. Those secrets are what you'll find when you read about four small Midwestern Steubenville, Ohio has a steel mill graveyard; there is a very bizarre bazaar every year on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Mackinaw City; Dyersville, Iowa is famous for the Field of Dreams, a baseball field created for the 1989 movie starring Kevin Costner; however, no one speaks of the real ghosts in the town; and finally, you'll learn more about Udall, Kansas than how it was destroyed by an F5 tornado. What the tornado left behind, and the scathing mysterious corruption in the town is the worst disaster imaginable. You decide. If you live in the Midwest, you know the untold stories. You don’t talk about them. If you live elsewhere, decide for yourself because these are the stories no one shares…until now.

289 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 17, 2017

About the author

Maribeth Slovasky was born and raised in the Midwest. She earned her B.S. in education at Youngstown State University and her MA in Education at The Ohio State University.

Ms. Slovasky moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1993. She worked as the director of an educational tutoring facility which she purchased from her employer in 1998. She owned and operated the business with her husband, who designed and opened a second location. They decided to close the centers in 2009.

Ms. Slovasky began freelancing and teaching online while raising her three children. She wrote two children’s books which were published through the Apple Bookstore.

She has written several memoirs beginning with the story of her father's experience in the US Navy at the end of World War II. She co-author Present for a Purpose with Sok-Khieng Lim Hardy about her experience as a Cambodian refugee during the Pol Pot era. Her latest published work is Duty. Honor. Corrections. written with Chuck Williams about his life as a corrections officer in the state of Ohio for more than 20 years. Her next release, yet to be titled, is about John Petersen, a Tacoma, WA, native who moved to Mexico in the 1990s, fell in love, and was unjustly arrested and spent time in a Federal Mexican prison because of it. Look for John’s story in early 2024.

Her autobiographical story is titled What's Your Can? 11 Strategies for Living a Spectacular Life with a Chronic Illness, She’s also published one novel, Midwest Secrets which is a series of four novellas about the strange things that happen in the heartland of America, the stories no one wants to share!