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Books by Patricia Hilliard
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Helper Birds
12/14/2017 12:30:00 PM
by Patricia Hilliard
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| A personal experience is turned into a short story. |
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I was between jobs, as they say, but really, I was just a few years before I could retire, so I still needed to work. I had accepted a part-time job at a ferry service that took tourists to the Statue of Liberty. While working the job, I did what I like to do as a hobby, watch birds. As I scanned tickets and put people on the boat I watched a few blue jays struggle to comprehend the human-made world of the building I worked in. First I wrote a personal experience, then I changed it into a short story. On Dec. 11, 2017, it was published in The Raven's Perch. This is the first time I've published in an online literary magazine. TIME TO CELEBRATE!
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Breaking Out
by Bob Brink
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A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of |
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