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Award winning author Mindy Halleck is a Pacific Northwest writer, blogger and writing instructor. Her short story, The Sound of Rain, which placed in the Writer’s Digest Literary Contest blossomed into her first novel RETURN TO SENDER. Mindy blogs at Literary Liaisons and is a member of Willamette Writers and the Pacific Northwest Writers Associations, and serves on the steering committee for the Write on the Sound conference. In addition to being a writer, Mindy is a happily married, globe-trotting beachcomber, antiquer, gardener, grandma, and three-time cancer survivor. www.MindyHalleck.com Check out my Goodreads Author blog @ http://bit.ly/1t2hq0v and Return To Sender pages https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Mindy is a true Pacific Award winning author Mindy Halleck is a Pacific Northwest writer, blogger and writing instructor. Her short story, The Sound of Rain, which placed in the Writer’s Digest Literary Contest blossomed into her first novel RETURN TO SENDER. Mindy blogs at Literary Liaisons and is a member of Willamette Writers and the Pacific Northwest Writers Associations, and serves on the steering committee for the Write on the Sound conference. In addition to being a writer, Mindy is a happily married, globe-trotting beachcomber, antiquer, gardener, grandma, and three-time cancer survivor. www.MindyHalleck.com Check out my Goodreads Author blog @ http://bit.ly/1t2hq0v and Return To Sender pages https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Mindy is a true Pacific Northwest writer who loves the sound of rain, and writing in coffee shops. She grew up the daughter of a beauty queen and a retired soldier and worked with her dad starting at nine years old as “queen of the cash register” for the family business (shoe repair) in Portland, Oregon. It was no wonder Mindy later developed a career in finance and good taste in shoes. Portland was home except in the summers, when the cozy inlet of Manzanita Oregon was her family’s escape and her father’s hideaway from city life. Mindy’s father was one of the hopeful gold diggers who honeycombed unsuccessfully through Neahkahnie Mountain in search of the elusive pirate’s treasure rumored to be buried deep in the mountain. These settings are prominent features in Mindy’s writing. In addition to Return to Sender, Mindy has written three novels (two currently being edited), one autobiography, two mainstream literary, and one (published) nonfiction book, Romance & Money – 12 Conversations Every Couple Should Have. In addition, hundreds of her nonfiction articles have appeared in local and national publications, including her financial advice column (seven years running), titled Romance & Money, and travel articles that appeared monthly in By Recommendation Only Bridal Magazine. Her romance travel articles have been featured on websites of The Sheraton Maui and the Empress Victoria, BC. When not writing, she is happiest traveling Europe with her husband Joe; their most recent travel was a Rick Steves 21-Day Tour of six countries, which she highly recommends. Read her award winning short story, THE FRENCHMAN at http://bit.ly/1B6oIEr ...more

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To Murder a Poet

Dedicated to Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE on January 7th, 2026

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Witnesses left in tears

shock

pain

screaming, “What have you done?”

In death

that warrior emerges from behind the cloak of brutality.

Her words flow freely now,

unstoppable

no longer bound by tyranny.

She becomes mythological verse.

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“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
― - Henry David Thoreau

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“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

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“In general…there’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.”
― -Anne Lamott

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