A Grain Of Truth ~ Book Two

By Karin Bole Tupper

Life. Love. Loss. Longing...
Karin Bole Tupper has written the companion to her previously published book, "A Grain Of Truth".
Bringing to life with a deft touch for the descriptive, stories that do in fact, all contain the proverbial "grain of truth." Reading through the ten stories in this volume, you will find tales of intrigue, ordinary life, lessons learned in life and love and stories that contain family history. "A Grain Of Truth ~ Book Two", includes a bonus piece of the working introduction to what will be a full length novel, "The Internet Poetry Cafe". A darkly sardonic tale of life as private person in the very public, social media and Internet venue. Satire, parody and intrigue abound. This "just the facts, M'am", a matter of public record, told in Ms Bole Tupper's characteristic deeply descriptive style, promises to be enlightening and entertaining.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karin Bole Tupper
• Release date: Aug 3, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301922291

Karin Bole Tupper

Karin Bole Tupper currently works at Health Canada, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch. She studied to become a Certified Dental Assistant and was published in her professional association’s magazine. A career detour into the burgeoning High Tech industry followed very quickly and while working as a Documentation Controller, the opportunity to learn technical writing came with the job description. Always an artistic and creative spirit, Karin pursued many different traditional crafts, including writing for personal enjoyment. She honed these skills over the years of marriage and motherhood and soon had a rewarding knitwear design business developing alongside with raising two children and a full-time job. Her knitting blog, started in 2006, is a lively spot and an informal glimpse into her world and her warm, intimate writing style. More recently, Karin has worked with Skyreader Media, doing voice over work. You can hear her on the highly acclaimed e-reader application for children, “Wiggens Makes Friends at the San Diego Zoo” Her writing is focused primarily on poetry and short stories. The often fact-based fiction that she pens encompasses romance, parody, loss, family and relationships, with a demonstrated flair for the descriptive. Karin lives in Canada’s Capital, surrounded by family and friends; too much yarn and not enough books.

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A Grain Of Truth II

A book of short stories by Karin E. Tupper

Copyright Karin Bole Tupper

2013

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The First Story

Tales From The Internet Poetry Café ~ Excerpt from an upcoming book.

When I look back on how it all went down, I see it as if I was in a horror movie, a very bad, B-grade horror movie.

You know the ones, where you're in a normal place, doing regular things and you look up to see that everything has gone to black and white. What you thought were people have all morphed into scary doll creatures or zombies and they've all turned to stare at you. Meanwhile, bit players drop in and out, talking to the zombie vampire people, buying their coffees, talking and laughing and totally oblivious to the fact that we are now all in a Hammer Film production.

All of that came later though. When I first stumbled across it, the cafe was a fun place to be, good eats, good coffee and the owner had a smile and a poem for everyone. It was easy to see that the regulars at the banquette table at the back were indulging in some pretty serious geriatric flirting with the Café owner. He took it good naturedly, and it was nice to see that even those who could barely spell; always received a kind word of encouragement. There