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Day for Bones
Day for Bones

A flood scatters human bones along Main street. As Rick Peller investigates, a successful family's secrets emerge, until someone resorts to murder.

2022

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Dale Lehman
Dale Lehman

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Lit Up

·Pinned

Miraculous Morgan

Everyone needs a boost now and again — I’d grown accustomed to dying. We all do if we live long enough. …

Fiction

15 min read

Miraculous Morgan
Miraculous Morgan
Fiction

15 min read


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Publishous

·Pinned

My Wife’s Death Dominated My 2022

A year of loss — On June 27, 2022, I lost Kathleen, my wife of 45 years, my love, my truest friend, my confidant, my constant companion, my writing mentor and editor, my motivator and champion, and on and on and on. Death has visited our family many times. When Kathleen was thirteen, her mother…

2022

13 min read

My Wife’s Death Dominated My 2022
My Wife’s Death Dominated My 2022
2022

13 min read


Published in

Lit Up

·Jul 30

Homecoming

Driven out, taken in — The scars were what convinced her. His ursine size notwithstanding, Nessa O’Clery might have written Jake off if not for that spider web of white lines tracking across his forehead and cheekbones and vanishing into his unkempt beard. This guy was a survivor. “Let him live,” she ordered. Her three…

Mars

5 min read

Homecoming
Homecoming
Mars

5 min read


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Red Tales

·Jun 18

Chicory

A poem in memory of my wife — When the chicory blooms, you’re there. When lightning splits the clouds And thunder cracks And rivulets flood the irises, You’re there. When leaves don warm colors of cool autumn And pumpkins break out in toothy grins As saints lend souls their guiding hands, You’re there. When the Child is in…

Poetry

2 min read

Chicory
Chicory
Poetry

2 min read


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The Haven

·May 11

ChatGPT is a Rotten Liar

It’s trying. Very. — This article contains shocking and disturbing revelations about the character of the world’s most famous AI system. Some readers may feel faint, find their faith shaken, or descend into convulsive fits of laughter. You’ve been warned. Read at your own risk. It started innocently enough. I wanted to see what…

ChatGPT

9 min read

ChatGPT is a Rotten Liar
ChatGPT is a Rotten Liar
ChatGPT

9 min read


Published in

Lit Up

·May 2

Seth

A final moment of happiness — The sun didn’t show that morning. An unbroken stream of gray filled the western Ohio sky, carried on a chill breeze. The air felt heavy, wet. James Linderman didn’t care for it. Deer would be scarce this morning, more so if the rains came. Cloaked in a stand of young…

Native Americans

11 min read

Seth
Seth
Native Americans

11 min read


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Red Tales

·Jan 10

A Long Overdue Update

I totally forgot about this newsletter over the past year. I guess I owe you an update. First — some of you may already know this — 2022 was derailed shortly after it started as Kathleen, my wife of 45 years, grew increasingly ill and passed away on June 27th…

Writing

2 min read

Writing

2 min read


Published in

Red Tales

·Jan 10

Need for Speed

Train up or…well, just quit —

Racing

1 min read

Need for Speed
Need for Speed
Racing

1 min read


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The Writing Cooperative

·Jan 4

Typesetting for the Self-Published

Make your print look as professional as your writing — As a self-published author, you already know — or should — the importance of good writing, solid editing, and a great cover. You’ve done everything you can to make your book look and read like a professional product. Or have you? Did you pay attention to typography? Do you know…

Typesetting

10 min read

Typesetting for the Self-Published
Typesetting for the Self-Published
Typesetting

10 min read


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The Writing Cooperative

·Aug 17, 2022

The Right Way to Read Your Reviews

How to use reader reactions to improve your writing — Whether to read your reviews is a vexing question. Many writers and publishers insist you shouldn’t, and they have a point. That volatile cocktail of glowing praise, lukewarm approval, and open hostility can make you sick with anxiety. Then again, hidden in the mix just might be some nutritive value…

Book Reviews

7 min read

The Right Way to Read Your Reviews
The Right Way to Read Your Reviews
Book Reviews

7 min read

Dale E. Lehman

Dale E. Lehman

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