Crystal Wilkinson
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The Birds of Opulence
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Water Street
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Degrees of Elevation: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia
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Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia
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Holler
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“My father had been buried for a month when my mother came back to claim me. She returned as somebody even I didn’t recognize—a spirit barely alive imprisoned in her body, a husk. When we returned home, I mourned as much for the loss of my mother as I did for my father. Even then her shoulders had started to slump in surrender. Her skin had begun to wrinkle.”
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“But it was long before then that I realized that my mother was no longer there. That she had died with my father. I was a little girl being raised by spirits. In”
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“But some of us have moved away and they are the ones who miss this street the most. They will always belong here even when they think they no longer do.”
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Appalachian Leaves: Appalachian Writers Workshop | 1 | 40 | Jul 21, 2010 07:29PM | |
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Literary Fiction ...: Buddy Read: The Birds of Opulence | 10 | 43 | May 22, 2018 09:45AM | |
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Imagine my surprise and delight when I opened my Goodreads 'New from authors on your shelf' email and found "The Birds of Opulence". I don't frequent FB that often so I had no idea you were working on a new novel. Congrats! Good luck getting it out into the world!
Metta,
Peter