Martha J Allard
Redemption: the story behind Speak My Name (and a tiny bit of the sequel)
The church of my childhood marginalized angels and demons. Their stories were boiled down to sterilized concepts of good and evil. As a...
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Martha J Allard
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Flash Fiction. In General
I’ve been writing flash fiction over the last year or so, and I’m starting to collect it into a book. I love all short stories. They give...
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Martha J Allard
- May 23, 2021
- 2 min
The color of my ink: Navigating my way out of Covid.
I love fountain pens. I love watching the shimmer of the words as the ink dries in the wake of the nib across the page. I love the stains...
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Martha J Allard
- Mar 7, 2021
- 2 min
In Praise of Misunderstood Characters
I was having a conversation last week, or it could have been the last month-who remembers what even time is anymore, right? What were we...
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Martha J Allard
- Apr 19, 2020
- 1 min
My Mother's Stitch and Bitch Club
I have spent the last few weeks helping to make masks. My roommate has produced hundreds. I just sewed what she told me to. I was...
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Martha J Allard
- Oct 17, 2019
- 2 min
Building this World
I've released a lot of stuff in the last few months. My short story collection, Psychic Surgery, came out at the beginning of summer, and...
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Martha J Allard
- Apr 26, 2019
- 2 min
The I-word
I just wrote a blog about selling books for the Flint Area Writers blog. Really, it was about selling my own books, and how uncomfortable...
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Martha J Allard
- Mar 20, 2019
- 3 min
A Winding Tale of Influence
When people asked me, in my former life, to recommend a book, I had two lists in my head. The first were the sure sales, the easy ones....
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Martha J Allard
- Oct 21, 2018
- 1 min
October Country
Yesterday was the very first day that I felt October. I mean really felt it tapping on my shoulder. I know it's almost November, but I've...
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Martha J Allard
- Sep 26, 2018
- 2 min
why I never told:
Tigger warning: rape and rape denial Why did I never tell? I’m sick of that question. Why didn’t I tell that I was raped? Twice? Because...
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