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Come Down
A home front flash fiction
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
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The Trials of Mrs. Oakwood
A short story in newspaper prose
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Death on the Rails
A historical thriller of a short story set during the Great Depression
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
A Public-Spirited Citizen
The avid reader of whodunits is equal to any emergency. Or so she thinks.
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
The President Comes to Stay
A humor short story
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Quarter Past Murder
Midnight (or just past) upon the terrace of an English country house. A body has been discovered. And nobody knows quite what to do next.
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
Three Characters in Search of a Christmas Tree
A Christmas snapshot from the world of "Land of Hills and Valleys"
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Short Story: "Flyover"
I wrote a short story on the spur of the moment this month.
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
The Bird of Dawning: A Christmas Story
I wrote this short story last week, when I felt like writing something and knew that it had to be a Christmas story...and perhaps in order to revel in a…
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
At the Turn of the Road
This piece was written in 2015 from the prompt to write a short story inspired by the above painting ("LaGrange vs.
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
Conversation With a Firebrand
This little piece was written in 2015 off a prompt of "dialogue about fireworks."
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The Letter
I wrote this bit of flash fiction back in September for a challenge, and I'm re-posting it here by popular request.
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Elisabeth Grace Foley
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