Attic Fragments

Most writers have minds like old attics, in which a lifetime of odds and ends are stored – Robert DeMaria

  • A Lost Bone

    A Lost Bone is the first chapter of a children’s novel I wrote for my college finals. The characters are based on my two wonderful dogs, Paxton and Kip. Hope you enjoy 🙂 Part One It was a quiet afternoon at 221B Barker Street. My friend, Mr. Paxton, and I have lived here for the… Continue reading

  • The Vanishing Half: A Novel

    Author: Brit BennettRelease Date: June 2020 Genre: Historical Fiction, Family Saga Twin girls inseparable since birth suddenly find their lives split in two. Growing up in a small black community in Louisiana, Stella and Desiree Vignes run away at sixteen to escape the suffocating rules of their world. Neither could have predicted their sudden separation.… Continue reading

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  • The Book of Longings: A Novel

    Author: Sue Monk KiddRelease Date: April 2020Genre: Historical Fiction Ana, the wife of Jesus of Nazareth. While fictional, as Kidd discovered in her research, entirely plausible. There is no record of Jesus from the age of twelve until his 30th year and in 1st century Galilee, it was a man’s civic, familial, and sacred duty… Continue reading

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  • The Library of Legends

    Author: Janie ChangRelease Date: April 2020Genre: Historical Fiction China 1937, when the Japanese were invading and the Communist and Nationalist parties were at odds, the students of Minghua University evacuate to the safety of the western provinces. A journey across 1,000s of miles, 19 year old Hu Lian and her classmates are entrusted with one… Continue reading

  • Villanelle

    I found this old villanelle poem from college recently. Poetry was never my forte, and I remember struggling in this class. I really liked the alternating rhyming pattern, however, and remember sitting in my room with a pen and paper trying to find a set of words that would fit. That had to be the… Continue reading

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