Write + Travel
Marine Sunset, 1881-1882
Oil on canvas
30 1/2 x 42 inches
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Coming Soon – Spring 2024
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What happens when things precious and dear are nearly lost? Find out in:
TAF Omnibus Vol. II at Amazon and Quail Ridge Books
https://www.quailridgebooks.com/book/9798223331599
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Monthly Series
THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD
Quick reads. Odd juxtapositionings. Food for thoughts.
The historical narrative that follows was modeled on actual Civil War letters.
“The Crater Holds A Hero”
December 20, 1864
I am grateful to learn of your willingness to act as
administrator in my brothers affairs
You may take immediate action if you think proper and let me
know when convenient what progress you may make. It is not
expected that anything belonging to Amos will be saved but maybe his whereabouts
Jacob Peeter
New Haven, Connecticut August 27th, 1893
To Mr. Jacob Peeter
Dear Sir,
I’ve been made aware of someone in Washington DC most likely to be in possession of information about your brother. Maybe the opportunity to find the details we’ve been seeking is near.
I will send correspondence today.
In regard to the question of the land claim and if Mr. More paid 350$ in 1863, it appears though many moneyed men vied to claim parts of Peetertown, no one had ever purchased your brothers’ property, for I saw the deed with the name “Amos Peeter” as the rightful owner of “lot number five.”
I will apprise you on both cases as soon as I get more information.
Please accept my kind regards to you and your family.
Yours Truly,
Brevard Whittier
Washington DC October 13, 1893
Quarter Master General, War Dept
Dear Sir:
Please find enclosed my original letter of August 27th accompanied by the reply of the Record and Pension office. I will be greatly appreciative for the information which it is suggested your department can furnish me.
Yours Truly,
Brevard Whittier
Portland, Maine October 31, 1893
Mr. Brevard Whittier Attorney & Company
For information as to the burial place of Amos Peeter formerly of USCT
The records of this office do not afford any information relative to the burial of Amos Peeter formerly of USCT.
The Union dead were removed from the Petersburg battlefield to Popular Grove
Quartermaster US Army #9——
1st endorsement
War Department
Quartermaster General’s Office
Washington DC October 31, 1893
Respectfully returned by direction of the Quartermaster General to
Mr. Brevard Whittier Portland Maine
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Poems Published To Honor Juneteenth Are Perfect Summer Reading
I write in response to historical events. Two of my poems, “Selma to Montgomery” and “Fair Play,” have been published on pages 45 and 46 in Social Justice Inks–Anthology of Poetry.
Click the link to learn more about the anthology and access to my poems:https://prolificpulse.blog/2022/06/06/social-justice-inks-anthology-of-poetry-is-live/
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Fiction About Family
“My new husband had warned me about his mother. On the way to her house for the first time, my honeymoon excitement gave way to an anxiety pit in my stomach.”
What happens when worlds apart collide in love?
My original short story, “Down in Pisagitoches,” and my fresh, new poem “Justice for Liberty,” have been released for your reading pleasure!
Find them in The TAF Omnibus: Stories & Poems, an anthology that is “full of all kinds of unexpected stories that will touch and entertain you, and poems that will invite you to stop and linger over their words.”
The TAF Omnibus: Stories & Poems is available in ebook on all the major retailers and print through Amazon and Barnes & Noble directly. All the buy links are here: books2read.com/TAFomnibus Click on the link to buy the book!
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Fiction Published in Founder’s Favourites
My love story written without conventional emblems of love.
Meet Kenny & Will
Please click on the link below to read my flash in Founder’s Favourites
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/66632625/ff18
Short Story Published Online
“Piddecock”
What happened when I mashed-up a character-type out of Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens with a scene out of The Devil and Tom Walker by Irving? Discover the ominous outcome in “Piddecock” at:
“Piddecock” was published in January 2022.
Quick Flash Nonfiction
“Mixed Blessings In Rushing Wind”
And the street race is on for leaves blown by gusts into a chaos of brown across pavement; the leaders change while other contestants catch on blades of grass.
Leaves from high elevations dance gesticulations dodged by birds and squirrels on the hunt for bounty. A grass knob rises proud above the rock embankment that channels the babbling culver creek.
Freedom leaves when seasons make predictions for a sky above tulip trees and camellias, where peace and quiet meet their replacement in a gray-wind storm front of cloud filter, a card dealt by the hidden hand—manufacturer of all I admire, and despise.
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Published Short Story
“From A Desk With A View”
What would a classroom desk say if it could talk? Oh, the stories it would tell. Click on the magazine cover and find out what one desk has seen, written by me as Keri Vilchinsky, published in June 2019 Perspectives Magazine.
Magic awaits you behind the door of your local historical society.
1850s former residence in Maine currently occupied by a historical society (KAP photo)
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