Author : Alma Alexander

Alma Alexander is a novelist, anthologist and short story writer who currently shares her life between the Pacific Northwest of the USA (where she lives with her husband and two cats) and the wonderful fantasy worlds of her own imagination. Born in a country which no longer exists on the maps, she has lived and worked in seven countries on four continents (and in cyberspace!), and the story of her life so far has included climbing mountains, diving in coral reefs, flying small planes, swimming with dolphins, touching two-thousand-year-old tiles in a gate out of Babylon.

The Winnowing

To telescope a harrowing couple of months into a couple of sentences,my mom was on hospice for kidney disease (and she kept ON being on

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Adulting gets real

So, my mom. Widowed almost ten years ago, with my dad having been the outside-facing part of that marriage – my mother is almost a

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Identity

I found something on FB the other day and reposted it for responses on my own wall – Couple of reasons why I tthrew that

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The January Read, 2023

You may remember me writing about last year’s read and the tradition that led to that – but this year there it was, another Walt

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A Cat Called Avalanche

So I’ve been besotted by Maine Coons since the first time I laid eyes on one, okay? I mean, please don’t take this the wrong

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The things we carry

I just saw this article on LitHub  about the auction of the late Joan Didion’s personal objects and property – her shell collection, her eye

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“And whose are you…?”

When I was a little girl running loose with my cousin in the dusty streets of the village where my grandparents had a house and

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