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These stories are as different as the women
who wrote them. The authors seek to do more than entertain
you, or even shock you. They want to make you think about
what takes place between the lines, about what happens to
the characters after the stories are over. In over twenty
tales, the situations run the gamut: a newly-blind man wants
to end his forty-three-year marriage; a husband makes his
wife and their young nephew go to a church where snake-handling
is part of the service; a woman's fate is in the hands of
the doctor who will decide how long she must stay behind the
locked doors of a psychiatric ward.The authors themselves
have survived many life challenges, both big and small, and
have led diverse lives. But, they share a keen interest in
people and what makes them relate to each other the way they
do. This interest has become the fuel for their story writing.
DEE GREENBERG is a retired
attorney whose interest in the problems of older adults led
to her first novel. Born and raised in Chicago, she lives
there with her husband.
HELEN CAMMUSO began writing
when she was a grandmother. She has worked as a copy-writer
and had stories published in Mature Lifestyles, a
paper in Madison, Wisconsin. Helen lives in Chicago with her
husband Michael, who is an artist.
A. J. KELLY thinks of
herself as a Southern writer, having spent her formative years
in Kentucky. Her stories are filled with colorful characters
and situations. She now lives in Chicago. Her husband of thirty-eight
years was the late David Romaine Bohme, noted violinist and
conductor.
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