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Thirteen captivating stories explore love in all its forms–great love, love gone bad, and accidental love with themes as diverse as the many nuances of the subject itself. This entertaining collection ranges from lighthearted and witty to thought-provoking, pulling on your heartstrings with tenderness. Written in a variety of historical, contemporary, fictional memoir, and sci-fi, you’ll find your favorite genre and perhaps one that may expand your horizons.
Authors include members of the Marion County Writers Workshop, based in Iowa, as well as dedicated writers around the nation. Stories are peer-reviewed for high quality of the literary craft to maximize your enjoyment, and appropriate for adults of all ages.
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Thirteen captivating stories explore love in all its forms–great love, love gone bad, and accidental love with themes as diverse as the many nuances of the subject itself. This entertaining collection ranges from lighthearted and witty to thought-provoking, pulling on your heartstrings with tenderness. Written in a variety of historical, contemporary, fictional memoir, and sci-fi, you’ll find your favorite genre and perhaps one that may expand your horizons.
Authors include members of the Marion County Writers Workshop, based in Iowa, as well as dedicated writers around the nation. Stories are peer-reviewed for high quality of the literary craft to maximize your enjoyment, and appropriate for adults of all ages.

Back Roads Literary Review - Autumn 2024
Released Oct. 2024- The Autumn issue of Back Roads Literary Review offers themed scary stories to tickle anyone's macabre fancies. This collection of work by emerging writers tell tales of the paranormal, apparitions. mysterious circumstances, extra-sensory perception, spiritual entrapments and black magic. Read them late at night, or around a campfire bundled against the Halloween chill, but be sure you have an escape plan. Reality is only what can be perceived... or imagined. Suitable for teenage and older readers.
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Released Oct. 2024- The Autumn issue of Back Roads Literary Review offers themed scary stories to tickle anyone's macabre fancies. This collection of work by emerging writers tell tales of the paranormal, apparitions. mysterious circumstances, extra-sensory perception, spiritual entrapments and black magic. Read them late at night, or around a campfire bundled against the Halloween chill, but be sure you have an escape plan. Reality is only what can be perceived... or imagined. Suitable for teenage and older readers.
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The Peacetree Mystery (A Novel)
Marion County, Iowa is usually a quiet place where people get along and enjoy the scenic activities of Lake Red Rock. But when Jacob Wildcrow, a local Native American, begins having visions of a quest that may involve a possible treasure, the possibility attracts fortune hunters throughout the county.
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