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  • Miracle at the Museum of Broken Hearts
    1.3M 15.4K 13

    Does every relationship deserve a second chance? When chief romantic Rose Delaney scores her dream job at London's quirkiest new attraction, The Museum of Broken Hearts, she thinks she's got it made. Sure, it's a little depressing dealing with relics of failed relationships each day, but Rose is determined not to let...

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  • The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home
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    Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad. Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toron...

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  • Skrimshander (Attys 2012 entry)
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    "Upon entering the place I found a number of young seamen gathered about a table, examining by a dim light divers specimens of skrimshander." from MOBY DICK, by Herman Melville

  • Coming to Terms
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    This is my ten-form poetry submission to the first annual ATTYS competition. All ten poems are related to the process of coming to terms with different life situations: a miscarriage, the death of a loved one in the Vietnam war; a political abduction; the ex-pat life; a battered wife; betrayal; Alzheimer's Disease; dr...

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  • The Dictators' Guide to Good Housekeeping
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    Selected by Margaret Atwood for the 2012 Atty Award. Collection of 10 poems. (The cover photo is a detail from the painting "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" by Dorthea Tanning. Tate Collection, London).

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  • Short Writings
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    Enjoy two pieces from Marian’s collected short writings. One frank and funny account of her experiences as a writer and an uproariously comic dose of counselling from the one and only Mammy Walsh!

  • The Walsh Family Q&A's
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    Never before published, these hilarious Q&As with the women of the Walsh family have been offered especially for Wattpad readers to enjoy ahead of the paperback publication of The Mystery of Mercy Close.

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  • flowers on the moon
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    A collection of poems about love and loss.