linda sands

 

fiction

A Private Play
 

The Sack They Left Behind

Don't Quote Your Dye Job

Broken Tiara

1 out of Every 17 Calls Might be Wrong

Secondhand Smoke

Unfaithful

Give Us a Wink

 Moonface and Shorty

Driving Toward a Broken Heart

Ashes, ashes...

 Grid Logic

 On My Street

Riding the Karma Train

 Eight minutes in The Medieval Times

What Troy Wants

novels

We're Not Waving, We're Drowning

On a trip to Savannah, I found a bronze statue by the river. I asked a shop clerk about The Waving Girl and he told me a story of  desperate love, of loss and redemption. I spent three days in the archives reading about Florence Martus and her brother George the lighthouse keeper.

Along the way, I found Maggie Morris and Bobbie Denton, and the amazing poet, Stevie Smith.

 We're Not Waving, We're Drowning has been called The Hours in Savannah

 

 

3 Women Walk Into a Bar

Introducing Bill Tedesco, ex-male stripper turned PI, the most unlikely hero since Iron Balls Delaney was eating wet sandwiches over the kitchen sink.

 

essays

Gift from Your Sole

American Dream

The New American Dream

The People You Meet

Life Swapping

Ciao to Amusement Parks

People Tell Me Stories

Verbal Abuse

This I Believe

It's Just a Family Trip

Off the Map

The Secret of the 8th Sense

 

 

Annual Reports

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2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Enjoy the yearly exploits of Linda and her family.

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Another Good Thing

Good News

 The MSR 2008 Short Fiction Anthology BIG WATER, is now available featuring award winning shorts, including a beach-themed story from Linda who wants more than anything to have her own place on the water.

Linda is proud to be the recipient of a 2008 scholarship to the Southampton Summer Writers Conference where she has been given the opportunity to workshop with the amazing Amy Hempel.

Linda's entry, What Troy Wants, was selected by Harvard's Bret Anthony Johnston as a winner in the first and last Name the World contest.

 

Introducing scratch 

This innovative new monthly writing contest and journal rolled out in full force at the 2008 AWP Conference in NYC to a crowd of over 7000 writers and readers. Every month  winners are awarded cash prizes and publication by a rotating panel of industry professionals.

 Read the winning entries and find out how you can enter:

 

www.scratchcontest.net

 

 

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