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A collection of short stories that focus on the fault lines in the heart, and the unexpected stop-overs people make during journeys they never meant to take in the first place. From a teenager coming into adulthood without her mother to a young woman learning years after her father's death how much he really loved her, it's about the moments we learn that love is everything and life isn't permanent, no matter how desperately we want it to be.
Life in Debris includes the fantasy short story Strands of Mermaid Hair.
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Maria Rachel Hooley
Maria Rachel Hooley is the author of over forty novels, including When Angels Cry and October Breezes. Her first chapbook of poetry was published by Rose Rock Press in 1999. She is an English teacher who lives in Oklahoma with her three children and husband. She loves reading, and if she could live in a novel, it would be Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn.
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