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After a civilian career with Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, PJ Devlin decided to pursue an MFA in Fiction from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, where she studied with Susan Shreve, Alan Cheuse and Courtney Brkic. Devlin tells stories about relationships. Her characters meet at the intersection of acceptance and rejection and their choices impel them to understand what it means to be human. Whether writing of a witch, a dwarf, an elderly woman, or a black indentured servant, Devlin’s characters exist in the Philadelphia of her birth and share her love of the Wissahickon Creek.

PJ’s short stories have been published in print and on-line. “The Witch” may be found in Rose Red Review. “The Decline and Fall” was runner up in Sat ...more

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	Wissahickon Souls 4.44 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming Jonika 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wishes, Sins and the Wissahickon Creek 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trick or Treat!: A Collection of Spooky Stories by P.J. Devlin (Goodreads Author), Herta B. Feely, Troy D. Kurz 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2013 by Bonnie F. McCune, James D. McCallister (Goodreads Author), Caroline Sposto it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Wishes, Sins and the Wissahickon Creek Author's Note

Because I am apparently blog-challenged, I decided to post the Author's Note to my short story collection, Wishes, Sins and the Wissahickon Creek. Here you go.

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I’ve known I was a writer from the moment I learned the alphabet and put pencil to paper. My mother saved a little notebook in which I wrote stories in a five-year-old’s baby scrawl, with mystifying spelling based on phonetics b Read more of this blog post »

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My first book, Wissahickon Souls, is available as a free Kindle download today and tomorrow! (Feb 26&27). I don't know when my publisher will offer it for free again, so you should grab it now!

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