| E-mail Trina: trinaallen @ nc.rr.com To Live Again Winner of Write Around the Block's January 2008 short story contest ... it’s quite compelling ..." Elizabeth Oliver, The Rambler Magazine Peculiar Advice Winner of an excellence award from Dana Literary Society. Ten Dollar Tastings Wonderful wines that won't wear on your wallet by Harry Calhoun The Raleigh Area Women Writers (RAWW) members are active writers of book-length and short fiction "I like your writing style..." Jenny Jones, Editor, Education Today |
| This page contains some of my favorite stories and information about upcoming publications. More coming soon. Happy reading!
I am happy to share that “The Mulberry Tree” will be appearing in Chiron Review, a Pushcart Prize-winning literary magazine that has resumed production after a hiatus of several years. Have you ever had a terrible day at work? One so bad that you wanted to walk away and never return. What makes that day different from any other? For a young math teacher who has difficulty dealing with unmanageable students, it is the pervasive influence of her own childhood in “The Mulberry Tree.” Not surprisingly, I had some of those horrible days that ultimately led me to trade the classroom for a computer keyboard. I used those experiences as the backdrop for this fictional story. ONLINE STORIES To Live Again--winner of Write Around the Block's January 2008 short story contest Allison is too frightened to get out of bed and turn on a light at night. And during the day, she is too scared to leave her house. Then she adopts Vanquisher, a scrappy pit bull terrier mix facing euthanasia. Peculiar Advice--winner of an excellence award from Dana Literary Society "Peculiar Advice" is a satirical and humorous segment about one day in a North Carolina teacher's life. Bystander --a friendly triathlon Amber suffers to compete in the stifling heat of a North Carolina June morning, until helped in a most unexpeced way. One of my New Year's resolutions is to finish and submit all of the stories that I have started, so I hope to be sharing some story publications soon. Please visit me on my blog, where I'm discussing the process of writing and what’s going on in my writing world and my life. Join in the discussion if you like. Copyright © 2004 - 2008 Trina Allen |
| Trina Allen's Short Stories for Adults |
| "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." Carl Sagan |
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