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Categories Paranormal Contemporary Fantasy
A vandalized property and a discarded wedding gown inspired this feminist ghost story where Mara Buck makes us feel the ghostly touch of the past and its call to rejoin the life of the present. Mara's evocative prose is not soon to be forgotten.
Author Details
Mara Buck writes, paints, and rants in a self-constructed hideaway in the Maine woods. She hopes to leave someday. Recently short-listed for the Alpine Fellowship. Winner of The Raven Prize for non-fiction, The Scottish Arts Club Short Story Prize, two Moon Prizes for women’s writing. Other recent first places include the F. Scott Fitzgerald Poetry Prize, The Binnacle International Prize. Awarded/short-listed by the Faulkner/Wisdom Society, Hackney Awards, Balticon, Confluence, and others, with work in numerous literary magazines and print anthologies. The ubiquitous novel lurks. For more pix and linx, the Scots have generously provided an author page: Mara Buck — Scottish Arts Trust Story Awards Story Notes for Threshold This feminist ghost story is fiction, based on a vandalized property and a discarded wedding gown. My Aunt Alice was married in that gown; sadly her husband died only a year later. She bought the farmhouse with the insurance money, but when she became ill and moved to town, the house was vandalized. I, the fearless heir, climbed through the wreckage and discovered the gown—and wrote Threshold in tribute to Alice’s artistic temperament. I hope she’d be pleased.
Threshold, by Mara Buck
Author Details
Mara Buck writes, paints, and rants in a self-constructed hideaway in the Maine woods. She hopes to leave someday. Recently short-listed for the Alpine Fellowship. Winner of The Raven Prize for non-fiction, The Scottish Arts Club Short Story Prize, two Moon Prizes for women’s writing. Other recent first places include the F. Scott Fitzgerald Poetry Prize, The Binnacle International Prize. Awarded/short-listed by the Faulkner/Wisdom Society, Hackney Awards, Balticon, Confluence, and others, with work in numerous literary magazines and print anthologies. The ubiquitous novel lurks. For more pix and linx, the Scots have generously provided an author page: Mara Buck — Scottish Arts Trust Story Awards Story Notes for Threshold This feminist ghost story is fiction, based on a vandalized property and a discarded wedding gown. My Aunt Alice was married in that gown; sadly her husband died only a year later. She bought the farmhouse with the insurance money, but when she became ill and moved to town, the house was vandalized. I, the fearless heir, climbed through the wreckage and discovered the gown—and wrote Threshold in tribute to Alice’s artistic temperament. I hope she’d be pleased.
