Chila Woychik

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. The Query from Port Yonder Press (July 2020), #1 in the Maddie Hill Mysteries series of novellas. A small press publisher. Pan Am Flight 103. A strange manuscript query. How does... it all fit together? Maddie Hill is passionate about her book press, but when last day submissions happen, she's also relieved. That is, until she receives several confusing emails, phony names, and veiled threats. Not to mention, she misses Sasha, though shed never admit it. And is her mentor really who he says he is? Everything eventually comes to light after several cat and mouse hours of who-did-what-and-why. Singing the Land: A Rural Chronology from Shanti Arts Publishing, Maine (May 2020), a collection of previously published essays reformatted into a month-by-month look at rural living. Autographed copy link below. "A ... meditation on the wonder of small moments, artfully told." Kirkus Reviews If you'd like an autographed copy of Singing the Land for yourself or a friend, click the Buy Now button below and follow the instructions. EXCERPT FROM THE INTRODUCTION to Singing the Land: A Rural Chronology An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second. Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography The shadow under the wall clock is in the shape of a mountain connected to an overhanging cliff. A thin crevice runs north and south and joins the two the mountain to the cliff. About halfway down the crevice another rock juts out, leaving only a marginal line of light, wide enough for a small fly or maybe two or three legs of a spider. Eventually the shadow blurs and disappears. The mountain turns to plain and the clock ticks on. Another day, and Ive already considered dying, heaven, the likelihood ...Read More