Holiday Connections

By F. Sharon Swope and Genilee Swope Parente

Holiday Connections is a series of stories that explore how the days of the year we set aside for celebrations can tie together family, friends and often strangers. From the child who involves her neighbors in planning her own funeral for Easter to the woman whose bump in the night on Halloween turns out to be a fa

• Language: English
• Publisher: GSP Publishing
• Release date: Nov 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9780996910613

F. Sharon Swope

Sharon ran her local hometown newspaper The Edgerton Earth with husband Robert W. Swope for many years and wrote a popular local column for that paper. She always wanted to write fiction, so at age eighty-two, she sat down at a computer and started writing. She is now in her nineties and still passionate about words.

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