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Sarah Margolis Pearce

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March 29

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I've been a writer all my life but it took me a long time to build a writing life. I wrote a lot of short stories in my early years. Tried my hand at a series of non-fiction projects. Went to writers' workshops. Joined writing groups. Attended conferences. Never made the great leap towards publishing until much later. I was in the middle of a very demanding doctoral program in Health Policy. Writing papers was a joy. Doing the research was great. I felt it taking my away from fiction but I tried to ignore the longings to start a new short story. It was when my advisor finally told me that my writing was strong but my dissertation was beginning to sound like a Flannery O'Connor story [her words] that I realized that I needed to go back to fi ...more

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The Promise of Fate

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DNF. I really tried. And I admit that I gave in and checked some of the reviews here to see if I could validate my feelings about the book. An abundant confirmation here that DNF is AOK.
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Very disappointed. I guessed the murderer very early on. There was nothing particularly interesting about any of the characters so the rest of the book, while I waited for a denouement, was an abysmal eternity.

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It took about 300 pages for this book to get going for me. Out of 467 pages. And even at p.300, I was already considering the unheard of "DNF" label. But I don't do that and write a review. So I finished it. Barely.
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“There was a piece of paper crumpled in the tight fist of the man. Porter opened the
fingers carefully and extracted the paper. On it, in a shaky script, were the words: Tell
them I killed the kid.”
Sarah Margolis Pearce, The Promise of Fate

“There was a piece of paper crumpled in the tight fist of the man. Porter opened the
fingers carefully and extracted the paper. On it, in a shaky script, were the words: Tell
them I killed the kid.”
Sarah Margolis Pearce, The Promise of Fate

“I should have" is one of the most tragic phrases in the English language. Live while you can.”
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“Break the rules; there are no boundaries.
Conformity strangles the spirit.”
Michael A. McLellan

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