Past Lives. Fascinating historical fiction from The Appalachians and Great Smokies.
Over the mountains and through the hollows, beside the rippling creeks and old log cabins, there are thousands of curious stories both humorous and sad, poignant and frightening that have been passed down from generation to generation. In this volume you'll enjoy imaginative tales about the land and the people who found their identities centered there. Stories of love and loss, pain and revenge. Tales of ghosts who haunt the overgrown graveyards and wander the backwoods trails chasing an elusive rest they will never find.
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I went there to interview Judy O'Shea. I'd found out about her while pursuing my hobby of historical research and I knew her narrative would interest my readers. After all, no one had ever heard her side of the story. She was never mentally stable enough to tell it in the past. It was a foreboding place. It gave me chills and I suspected it was worthy of every bad accusation ever leveled against it. I was ushered into a huge room with high ceilings and graying walls. Dozens of empty-eyed people sat in wheelchairs or easy chairs, lost in worlds of their own. I found her there seated by a dirty window, staring out like she had probably done every day for the past 77 years. I greeted the old lady and without my asking any formal questions, other than I'd be honored to hear about her life; in a soft voice she began to tell me her story......
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