My story collection is finally taking shape. My mini-story, “Heirlooms”, and two short stories, “Violets are Purple” and “Blurdays” are on the Whyte Clouds page of the Whyte Dove Press web site (See My Publisher link in sidebar). And … deep breath … the prologue to my novel in the works is there, too. If any of you are novel readers and want to glimpse a dual novel in progress, I plan to let my publisher post excerpts periodically. I’d love hearing what you think.
Some mothers and daughters have such a tenuous, fragile, fractured relationship while others are closer than twin sisters. There’s hardly any in-between mother-daughter relationships. The stories in my Mothers and Daughters collection is fraught with the ambiguity and undercurrent of emotion so often found in the relationship–or at least, I hope my stories convey these things to readers.
Is the ending to “Violets are Purple” too abrupt?
I took a look at those stories. They’re so different … Where do you get your ideas?
Thanks for taking a look at my stories. I get a gut feeling first. It can come from something I hear or see or experience. Then characters come into my head who seem to personify that feeling. They belong somewhere, a particular place, which becomes the setting. Sometimes it’s just a moment in their lives. Sometimes the story reaches into the past and future. But it all starts with a feeling. Mother-daughter relationships generate strong emotions. –kathleen