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June 2025

A forgotten photo yields a family story
If I'd found it a month later, I would never have known who was in the picture.
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Geoffrey Gevalt
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Wild Life
After seeing a raccoon, baby partridge, a bear -- and then something knocked the vireo nest down (did the babes fly?), a wood thrush and a hermit thrush…
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Geoffrey Gevalt
Fred – June 6, 1944
A story of an improbable coincidence that gave me the story of my father's day after landing in the second wave of the Normandy invasion -- a subject he…
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Thursday Night Live Writing Session
June's session will be at 7 pm June 26. Limited seats.
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Geoffrey Gevalt

May 2025

The Original Opening to Hiram Falls
For several years, this was the opening to my novel; then two editors suggested I take a different tack. I agreed. But I still like this one.
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Geoffrey Gevalt
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It's Time for Connections
Telling Stories begins programs -- writing sessions, digital story workshops, critique sessions to connect other writers and help us improve. Free.
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Geoffrey Gevalt
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Thursday Live Writing -- 5.15.25
The prompts for our first Live Writing Session of the season
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Geoffrey Gevalt
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Morning birds awaken my heart
The sounds of a hermit thrush and a woodpecker early one morning.
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Geoffrey Gevalt
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On a Subject We Dare Not Mention
The thought of death creeps in every day, but an outlet emerges -- a character in my novel.
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Geoffrey Gevalt
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April 2025

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