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    Priestess of Secrets
    Priestess of Secrets
    Priestess of Secrets
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    Priestess of Secrets

    By Deborah L. Fruchey

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    Priestess of Secrets is a collection of unique voices: the abused woman who wants to abandon her son... the wife who waits for her husband to wind down like a clock...the man with a desk full of unfinished novels who cannot look in the mirror...the house that is throwing a party to which the owner is not invited...these and many other voices await you in Deborah's collection of flash fiction. Priestess of Secrets will take you on a journey that is fresh and fascinating.

    “A series of fictive vignettes... a wonderful assemblage of voices. Introducing each of these “flash fictions” is a statement that snares the reader:
    “The minute we die we become more valuable.”
    “The car smelt like mold.”
    “There were no orchards in my childhood.”
    “She’d always wanted a room that wasn’t a room.”
    They pull you into the miniature worlds Fruchey has created. Sometimes they comprise internal dialogues of an interesting someone, and you want to know more. Sometimes it is a question to tumble for answers. However, without exception you are engrossed.”
    - from the foreword by Robert Eastwood

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeborah L. Fruchey
    Release dateNov 1, 2017
    ISBN9781370119875
    Priestess of Secrets
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    Deborah L. Fruchey

    Deborah Fruchey was born in California over 50 years ago. Her first novel, The Unwilling Heiress, was chosen as a Best Book by the American Bookseller's Association in 1987. She has attended several colleges just for fun, never earning a degree, and has worked at everything from international banking to selling light bulbs over the phone.In 2005 Deborah married musician Robert Hamaker, and settled in as a full time author. She occasionally does vocals for her husband's meditation music. She also speaks for the National Alliance of Mental Illness in their In Our Own Voice program, as a result of her own experience with Bipolar Disorder.Deborah no longer understands why she ever bothered with anything besides writing.

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      Book preview

      Priestess of Secrets - Deborah L. Fruchey

      Priestess of Secrets

      by

      Deborah L. Fruchey

      with a foreword by Robert Eastwood

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to your favorite ebook retailer to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      This book is also available in print

      A Last Laugh Productions book

      Copyright 2017 by Deborah Lynn Fruchey

      Cover Art: 'Priestess of Delphi,' oil on canvas, John Collier (1850-1934)

      Dedicated to Laura Wine Paster

      for years of wonderful prompts

      and an atmosphere ripe with words

      And to Mel C. Thompson

      for giving me the idea

      and the cover

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      The Minute We Die

      Abandoned

      Autumn Couple

      The Orchard

      Unintended Company

      Secret Lives

      Slip-shod

      Priestess of Secrets

      Sign Here, Please

      Housey

      Mishimoto

      The Gun

      Plain Girl

      Beanstalk

      In the Crevices

      Nothing to See Here

      State Your Occupation

      About the Author

      Other books by Deborah Fruchey

      Poetry Excerpt

      Introduction

      Hybrids of creative non-fiction and fiction have numerous rooms to fill: some small, some large, some leaning into fantasy and imaginary dimensions, and some with strict, personable décor. Deborah Fruchey’s Priestess of Secrets probes all the rooms. Though she labels her small book a collection of flash fiction, one wonders if she knows not what she has created, a series of fictive vignettes, or cross breeds of memoir and essay. What she has is a wonderful assemblage of voices.

      Introducing each of these flash fictions is a statement that snares the reader:

      The minute we die we become more valuable.

      The car smelt like mold.

      There were no orchards in my childhood.

      She’d always wanted a room that wasn’t a room.

      They pull you into the miniature worlds Fruchey has created. Sometimes they comprise internal dialogues of an interesting someone, and you want to know more. Sometimes it is a question to tumble for answers. However, without exception you are engrossed.

      Some say a good poet must be a good writer of prose. Deborah is a fine poet, and you will find the tracks of a poet in her use of figurative prose:

      We are suddenly a limited edition.

      The dead are a fearful burden behind our eyes.

      His works were conceived in inverted funnel-shaped hurricanes of thought, lashing and massive at the front end, rolling out of his pen in tighter and tighter spirals, till they dribbled out about chapter 13 or 12 and leaked away.

      The air was heavy as pudding.

      The piece entitled Unintended Company evoked an echo to me of David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement speech delivered to the graduating class of Kenyon College (his alma mater). His invitation allowed him to speak on any topic he wanted.

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