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This series of lessons is designed to help writers improve their writing by writing. It is predicated on the belief that learning to write well is not about reading, reciting and remembering; it is about comprehension, perception, and recognition. The aim is threefold: to help writers understand the importance of purpose, to perceive writing as a process, and to recognize the underlying principles that govern that process.
Clytie's Pond
Clytie's Pond is a sylvan glade, a pastoral paradise hidden behind a thick mass of tangled undergrowth. By the time Tom Sullivan learns its dark secret, it's too late...
Pandora's Box
Pandora Penholt takes one look at Chance Chastain and falls madly in Love. When she conspires with Sister Fate Favors, a paranormal psychic with a passing ability to play hunches and a willingness to capitalize on the folly of her fellow human beings, the results are less than spectacular.
The Homecoming Dance
Brush Country is a collection of poems that vary greatly in style, tone, length, and content. Their unity is in the setting. Each poem is about some person, place or event that has transpired or been inspired by the Brush Country of Central Texas. Each poem has its own ambiance and its own rhythm. Whether rugged and rough hewn as the tangled underbrush that grows in stubborn profusion beneath the stately oaks and scrubby mesquites or as finely wrought as the fragile flowers that bloom in shady glades and hidden places, these poems reflect the unique environment, the ambiguous nature and the paradoxical people who inhabit this distinctive and unusual little corner of the world.
EPPIE Finalist, Poetry
EPPIE Winner, Poetry
Daylight couldn't shape it,
That dream that stayed the night,
Then vanished as the first rays
Of sun brought morning light.
Amorphous, then invisible
In my fading recollection
It dimmed like mist at midday
In the glow of introspection.
My day was rent with discontent
And a nagging sense of woe;
A dream that I couldn't remember
Left a sorrow that wouldn't let go.
2007 EPPIE winner for best poetry collection
CHAPTER AND VERSE by Barri Bryan
Chapter and Verse
Love unrequited? I've known that state.
Love unreturned? I've lived that fate.
A dogma of sorrow, nothing is worse,
I can cite the chapter and verse.
Passion departed? I've walked that road.
Passion withdrawn? I've carried that load.
Like falling from heaven, there's no greater curse.
I can cite the chapter and verse.
Promises shattered? My tragedy.
Pledges broken? My Gethsemane.
A scripture of torment, wicked, perverse.
I can cite the chapter and verse
In the charged silence of the room, her husband’s words erupt like an explosion. “I want a divorce.” Emily Franklin’s twenty-five year marriage is over. With renewed strength and courage she didn’t know she possessed, Emily sets out to rebuild her life.
Enter The Reverend Dennis Morrison, a compassionate man who awakens in Emily quiet but compelling emotions. Then abruptly and unexpectedly, her chastened and repenting ex-husband reappears, asking her forgiveness and pleading for her to take him back.
