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Secrets. In youth, we savor them, agonize over them in blissful suffering until we can no longer stay silent. In (), Maddalena shares her life-changing secret w/ bff Regina. Read more: https://t.co/IQmtDYdWjQ

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2019-04-05

"My dress isn't my mother's wedding gown, the silk one heavy with embroidery [...] This dress is plain, a cheap satin sack [...] a size too large so that my body floats within it. It's all you deserve, my mother said." —from More: https://t.co/lbCPJKcGwQ

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2019-03-21

"The statue of the Virgin Mary peered out from her niche, looking serene despite the splash of bird poop on her pale blue cowl. Serenity, Kira thought. She could use some of that." From out 5/9 from . For more: https://t.co/c4ymf6pWJ7

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2019-02-28

"Kira sat in one of the empty stalls & breathed it all in, leather & sweat & horse & hay, the almost-taste of dung. She wanted to sleep cocooned in the thick air, wake with hay dust & the scent of horse embedded in her skin." From out 5/9 from

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2019-02-14

"The air turned leaden and the room dipped & rose, earthquake sharp. Kira stiffened. [...] The room, the air around her, settled into a slowstretched suspension, as if time had stopped." A death scene in out 5/9, . More: https://t.co/lsbmsDrOrL

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2019-02-06

When was the last time a sense of freedom made you feel like you'd reinvented yourself? That's what happens to young Maddalena in my novel, (out 5/9, ). For an excerpt & more: https://t.co/wg6rLbsUYs (Illustration: )

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2019-01-30

This is the 2nd image in the series of illustrations (by ) of my novel, THE WILD IMPOSSIBILITY, coming May 9 from . To read a snippet from the book and some related thoughts, visit https://t.co/BwTmOFIZQM

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2019-01-16