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Written and researched by Chris Chiller About a thousand years ago, an ethnic group left northwestern India, moving west. These were people who maintained a tight community, clinging to their language and customs. Using borrowed words related to horses and commerce as clues and historical records, it seems likely that the group spent time in…
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A treat from my writing partner. Enjoy! On Almost Adults – by Chris Chiller On Wednesday, we dropped our daughter off for an overnight freshman orientation. She was one of several hundred incoming 17 and 18-year-olds. They were housed in a dormitory with a circular drive near the entrance. We stopped behind three other cars,…
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Summer always brings the same angst to a writer: I’m behind. Every year, the same old saw grinds, back and forth, back and forth through my ego. I’m behind. Never enough hours in the day—even though it’s supposedly longer. I’m behind. Like, somebody’s been lying since the earth first began to rotate. I’m behind. The…
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By Chris Chiller Part 3 of Pirates, Smugglers, and Rum-Runners. In previous installments of Fact of Fiction we reviewed pirates and smugglers in Maine from Colonial times up to early US restrictions on trade with Great Britain which led to coastal Maine becoming a center of illicit trade for all of New England. Maine’s first…
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I pen cozy mysteries, women’s literature, urban fantasy, paranormal fantasy, and science fiction. As an essayist, I speak to craft, creatives, and gentle common sense. As an artist, I create whatever I want.
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