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    Trail Ways Pilgrims: Stories
    Trail Ways Pilgrims: Stories
    Trail Ways Pilgrims: Stories
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    Trail Ways Pilgrims: Stories

    By Patricia Flaherty Pagan

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    Travel with five women confronting hard choices in vivid settings ranging from the lush tropics to misty mountaintops to snowy cities. A grieving mother faces corrupt baby brokers. A troubled young woman seeks redemption and hope at a shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary. An expat writer finds herself trapped having tea with a rapist. Reader’s bonus: this eBook contains the first chapter of Ms. Pagan’s upcoming, fast-paced mystery, Zippo: Arson and Domesticity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatricia Flaherty Pagan
    Release dateMar 11, 2015
    ISBN9781311106421
    Trail Ways Pilgrims: Stories
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    Patricia Flaherty Pagan

    Patricia Flaherty Pagan grew up in Red Sox Nation but has lived in four countries. She thought getting her MFA in creative writing was hard, until she tried adopting two Indonesian street cats. She writes award-winning mystery and literary short stories and novellas. "Trail Ways Pilgrims: Stories," her ecollection featuring literary and mystery tales, was published in March 2015. Her mystery fiction has appeared in "Eve’s Requiem: Tales of Women, Mystery and Horror" and "Spry." She edited "Up, Do: Flash Fiction by Women Writers."

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      Trail Ways Pilgrims - Patricia Flaherty Pagan

      Trail Ways Pilgrims:

      Stories

      by Patricia Flaherty Pagan

      Copyright © 2015 Spider Road Press

      Cover Design by Jo-Anne Rosen

      Discover other titles from Spider Road Press at

      http://www.patriciaflahertypagan.com.

      Rays of Someday Almost was first published in Pitkin Review. Copyright © 2012 by Patricia Flaherty Pagan.

      Flooding was first published in Spry Literary Journal: Issue #3 (December 2013). Copyright © 2013 by Patricia Flaherty Pagan.

      Trailways Pilgrim was first published as Wild Pilgrim in Robocup Compendium 2013 by robocup press. Copyright © 2013.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      To my husband Steve, ever the handsome optimist

      Acknowledgments

      My sincere thanks to the readers who take the time to read and review my books. Honest reviews support writers and keep small press books alive.

      An enormous Thank You to Kessika Franks-Johnson, organizational Goddess. Heartfelt gratitude to my skilled, generous beta readers and advance reviewers: Gay no-character-is-a-minor-character Yellen, Theo Greenblatt, Kathryn Kulpa, Pamela Fagan Hutchins and Enos the epublishing veteran. I would also like to thank the writers in my wonderful critique circles: David Welling, Melissa Algood, Pamela Fagan Hutchins, Gay Yellen, Carla Conrad, Nandita Banerjee, Enos Rusell, Kyle Russell, and Louis Epstein. In addition, I offer my gratitude to my husband Steve, my deft copyeditor Pamela Mooman, Jo-Anne Rosen, Mary Ellen Johnson, Karen Marinaccio, Liz Pagan, Marge Flaherty, Bridget Brennan, Jessica Holland, Eileen Brunetto, Renee Maynes, Susan Kim, the Women of Mystery, Inna Vyadro, Carmen Peddy Rinehart, Heather MacGumeriat, Donna Hill, Fern Brady, Pak Delta, Ibu Rosy, and the A.W.A of Jakarta creative writing group.

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Bargaining

      Trail Ways Pilgrim

      Flooding

      Rays of Someday Almost

      The Wisdom

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