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My Amazon Author page has been updated. Four of my novels in paperback and on Kindle are now available. Quick look at what's out there: The Caretaker of Tree Palace - a boy learns to speak again through the powers of art and nature Waves - a dystopian mystery The Waking Tree - a ghost... Continue Reading →
This story started bubbling up for me during the weeks before September 11, 2001. After watching the attacks on television as so many of us did, I dug into this story until I found myself on the other side of many things in life that I had to -- my soul had to -- walk... Continue Reading →
As we approach Autumn, my favorite season and the season of my birth, I'm seeing the changes that tend to come at the closing of one season and the easing into a new one. For me, this year has been spent in theaters. I've performed in three plays and directed one. As I ease out... Continue Reading →
Proud to share my novel, The Caretaker of Tree Palace, and a few short stories in paperback and on Kindle. Paperback Version Kindle Version
https://youtu.be/qhunZiepDrU By C. Dawn McCallum (Originally published in Brilliant Star Magazine, March/April Issue 2003) Princess Sufficient gazed over the village square as the subjects of her parents’ kingdom prepared for the daily Celebration of the Big Rising Sun. Next to the Festival of Helpfulness that lasted all day long, and the Feast of the Well-Lived... Continue Reading →
(Originally published in READ Magazine on November 21, 2003) https://youtu.be/yyCVRLy1r7o Ernesto rolled the pebble between his fingers and stared out at the road, watching for the cloud of dust that would rise when the truck came to take them to the fields where their short-handled hoes would hack the beets under the leaves, and their... Continue Reading →
It is the Red-White-and-Blue summer of 1976. I am five years old. My parents are—I believe—off somewhere sorting out the details of their looming divorce, while my grandmother, Polly, takes me and my brothers swimming at a lake somewhere in either North or East Texas. I am five, so the details are unclear. What is... Continue Reading →
I used to hide in my house on Mother’s Day. There was a deep grief and resentment that overcame me when I realized I wouldn’t have children. I couldn’t bear the joyful Mother’s Day wishes and random flowers thrust upon me by merchants or community members. Or the moments when someone was about to say... Continue Reading →
For over 50 years, one family has called 906 Stillmeadow Road their home. But it was long before the first brick was laid that the man who designed the home, Dr. Ben Moore dreamed of the French-provincial-style house on the corner. A second generation Oak Cliffer, Dr. Moore began plans for making this home... Continue Reading →
