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Marta Pelrine-Bacon

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    • Influences
    • The Trouble with Hair
  • Spells
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    • Devotion
    • Drifting Through Space
    • Her Loving Arms
    • Hope: a poem
    • Not Your Breakfast Club: a short story in 2018
    • Saving David Bowie
    • The Fear of Apples
    • The Longest Love Letter
    • The Sky Fell in Love
  • The Blue Jar: a debut novel
    • A Soundtrack
    • Book Club Guide
    • The Next Book?
    • The Origin of a Story
  • The Fairy Tale Asylum: Notes & Shiny Objects
    • Cast of Characters
    • The Fairy Tale Asylum: A Novel in Progress (1st Installment)
      • The 10th Installment
      • The 11th Installment
      • The 12th Installment
      • The 13th Installment
      • The 14th Installment
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      • The 21st Installment
      • The 22nd Installment
      • The 23rd Installment
      • The 24th Installment
      • The 25th Installment
      • The 26th Installment
      • The 27th Installment
      • The 28th and Final Installment
      • The 2nd Installment
      • The 3rd Installment
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      • The 6th Installment
      • The 7th Installment
      • The 8th Installment
      • The 9th Installment
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Category: Patreon

The Bluebird of Happiness?

On January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 By mapelbaIn happiness, life, magic, mistakes, Patreon1 Comment

I took this picture while out for a walk last March. This character sits in front of a house just a few blocks away. I like walking around our neighborhood and taking pictures of things people put in their yards (though I only take pictures that don't require pointing the camera directly at someone's home). …

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Looking Forward

On January 3, 2021 By mapelbaIn COVID-19, fear, hope, New Year, Patreon1 Comment

When does the New Year stop being new? A few years back I witnessed a heated debate about when it was too late to wish someone a Happy New Year. I don't know, but I'd accept happy new year wishes in July if need be. In any case, here we are. I haven't started my …

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Starting the Journey

On January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 By mapelbaIn art, audience, change, dreams, effort, hope, New Year, Patreon3 Comments

Welcome to the New Year and all shining promises. Here in the northern hemisphere, its winter, of course, and while the days may be getting incrementally longer, there remains a lot of dark. It's a time for resolution and reflection, even if you try to ignore that sort of thing. It's a time to look …

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Into the Currents

On December 28, 2020 By mapelbaIn audience, change, dreams, effort, fear, hope, Patreon, resolution, Tiny Letter, true fan, wishing, writing2 Comments

"Just keep swimming," as the fish says. (You know what fish.) And here we are swimming from one year and into the next, and what a strange body of water it is. This week between Christmas and the New Year is a favorite week of mine. I teach, so I'm always off. But unlike other …

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My art on RedBubble gifts.

A Collection of Short Stories

Fox & Moon–my story in this anthology

My novel on Amazon.

My Novel

That Ghost Is Going to Cost You–my story in this anthology available on Amazon.

An Anthology
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Links to my work

  • Dark Tidings: Stories to Read by the Fire (an anthology I'm a part of)
  • Show support for the work here (or just click through to see more art).
  • The Blue Jar, my novel
  • To buy my art and handmade things click here.

Other Interesting Places

  • bird's eye view
  • Clare Wuellner
  • fairy tales
  • Find RAINN
  • Lara McKusky–Writer. Editor. Designer
  • Passionfind with Tonia Marie Houston
  • Running after My Hat
  • Seven Impossible Things
  • Tammy's Reading Life
  • Warrior Girl
  • West Coast Review
  • Wonderbook

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