linda sands

 

fiction

A Private Play
 

The Sack They Left Behind

Don't Quote Your Dye Job

Broken Tiara

1 out of Every 17 Calls Might be Wrong

Secondhand Smoke

Unfaithful

Give Us a Wink

 Moonface and Shorty

Driving Toward a Broken Heart

Ashes, ashes...

 Grid Logic

 On My Street

Riding the Karma Train

 Eight minutes in The Medieval Times

What Troy Wants

novels

We're Not Waving, We're Drowning

On a trip to Savannah, I found a bronze statue by the river. I asked a shop clerk about The Waving Girl and he told me a story of  desperate love, of loss and redemption. I spent three days in the archives and over three years researching, reading and rewriting this story based on  Florence Martus and her brother George, a  lighthouse keeper.

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Along the way, I found the poet, Stevie Smith who changed the whole story

 We're Not Waving, We're Drowning has been called The Hours in Savannah

Simple Intent

a courtroom thriller minus the courtroom... think virile young interns and some NJ mobsters

3 Women Walk Into a Bar

Introducing Bill Tedesco, ex-male stripper turned PI, the most unlikely hero since Iron Balls Delaney was eating wet sandwiches over the kitchen sink.

essays

Gift from Your Sole

American Dream

The New American Dream

The People You Meet

Life Swapping

Ciao to Amusement Parks

People Tell Me Stories

Verbal Abuse

This I Believe

It's Just a Family Trip

Off the Map

The Secret of the 8th Sense

 

 

Annual Reports

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Enjoy the yearly exploits of Linda and her family.

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Another Good Thing

Short shorts and poetry

this month

Mitten for my right hand

More than a glove

A mitten

Silly word which

makes me think of kitten

and then somehow I am onto

the fingerless part of it

as kittens also have no fingers

but the mitten itself

with its big thumb jutting out

that really is the silly thing

isn’t it?

Good News

 The MSR 2008 Short Fiction Anthology BIG WATER, is now available featuring award winning shorts, including a beach-themed story from Linda.

 

The writing contest goes quarterly

 

 Read the winning entries and find out how you can enter:

www.scratchcontest.net

 

 Stay tuned for more travel and adventures coming in 2009

 

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