Fred’s Story

A Ghost’s Story Written by Fred the Ghost with Lesley A. Diehl’s help As many of you know, I adopted the ghost who occupies our small cottage in a river valley in Upstate New York as my literary muse. My relationship with Fred is an evolving one. Let me explain how and why. Once upon…

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“Older than dirt”

I have a birthday soon, too soon. It’s tomorrow. I won’t share with you how old I am, but I recently took a twenty-question quiz on Facebook. It was comprised of items from the past. If you remembered all 20 of them, then you were “older than dirt.” I was “older than dirt.” Each year…

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A Crowded Season for Murder

Fall is not my favorite season. Here in Upstate New York it is usually cold and wet, signaling for me the coming of snow, more cold and ice. But this year, we had no summer, only rain, rain, rain. So now we are enjoying summer, weeks of sunny, warm weather. A little late, perhaps, but…

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Writing Short

I began writing fiction with a book length cozy mystery, and that continues to be where I invest most of my writing time today. However, the first award I won was for a short story, and it was the first one I’d ever written. I submitted it to the short story contest sponsored by Mystery…

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