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I live in a weird "little" town in the Missouri Ozarks with a rotating cast of friends and an emotionally needy cat named Shadow. I work in the activities department at a resort here in town, where my job is to entertain rich old people. When I'm not at work,

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Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Conscience: 1 of 7

The next morning I woke to our schizophrenic doorbell. It seemed like every day of my life started with that horrifying sound now- neighbors constantly dropped in "to say hello" at all hours of the day and night. I was pretty sure that none of them knew how to use a telephone, but Jude had said, halfway seriously, that he wa...
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Conflict: 7 of 38

Time marched on, and so did our war with the neighbors. Patrick incensed Mr. Lang from across the street when he pulled out his own binoculars and started spying on him. Someone called the police with a noise complaint the night Sam, Patrick, and Adena jammed over at our house with some of their friends from the orchestra. W...
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Friendship: 11 of 35

I don't know when we all became friends. It may have been that first day in the kitchen when Betsy Crittenden came over to nose around. It may have been a lot of little things, like how Adena and Sam started carpooling to their rehearsals at the symphony and how on the nights that Jude worked late at the hospital, he could e...
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Home: 4 of 11

The next day I met Adena at the concert hall after work. I was supposed to meet Sam, the guy she wanted to move into the house. I got there just in time for the last part of rehearsal. I always liked listening to Adena play in the orchestra, even though I couldn't distinguish her from the rest of the flutes. She wasn't the f...
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Family: 23 of 55

That night, Natalie and I dropped Adena off at home went to meet our parents at the Olive Garden. "What have you been doing? Rolling around in the dirt?" Mom asked the second she saw us. "You have a spider web in your hair," she said, picking at me in that way I hated. "We went and looked at Grandmother's house," I said, men...
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Relationships: 44 of 88

Everything changed for me the day after my grandmother's funeral. "Is Miss Emily Wade there, please?" A professional-sounding woman asked on the phone. She went on to say that my presence was requested at the reading of my grandmother's will, one o'clock that very afternoon. Immediately after I hung up the phone, it rang aga...