Location: United States
Member Since: Oct. 19, 2011
2 users have added this author as a favorite.

Lorraine Ray


Biography

Lorraine Ray is an award-winning writer who has traveled the west from the Grand Tetons to Silver City, from Leadville to the Petrified Forest. Her writing is equally wide-ranging and includes the tales of kitchen workers, orators from the 1880s, Air Force lieutenants, distressed librarians, love-sick undergraduates, and disappearing millionaires. In the cave of shadows that is our earth she hopes the beauty she tries to convey captivates and amuses her readers. She would be pleased to read any reviews of her works.

Where to find Lorraine Ray online

Twitter: LoRay00

Books

Last Days in the Desert    by Lorraine Ray
Price: Free! 26870 words. Published on May 31, 2012. Fiction.
Three coeds share an eventful last day in the southwest.
Metamorphosis of Me    by Lorraine Ray
Price: Free! 4670 words. Published on April 19, 2012. Fiction.
A reclusive man may be flubbing his reentry into society.
Juan and Willy    by Lorraine Ray
Price: Free! 28870 words. Published on March 16, 2012. Fiction.
Two hapless young men seek gold in Arizona. This novel contains cursing and casual references to drug use.
The Peerless Orator    by Lorraine Ray
Price: Free! 2280 words. Published on March 2, 2012. Fiction.
A young girl adores a touring orator, but a closer look changes her mind.
Bewitching Earth    by Lorraine Ray
Price: Free! 7240 words. Published on February 3, 2012. Fiction.
Love for the world, and its many beautiful niches, heals a young girl's heartache after a short affair with an older man.
Maelstrom    by Lorraine Ray
Price: Free! 2440 words. Published on December 22, 2011. Fiction.
On Christmas Eve a pregnant woman recalls being rescued by a vagrant when she was a child.
Squaw Dresses    by Lorraine Ray
Price: Free! 2920 words. Published on December 16, 2011. Fiction.
A society maven with a small dress factory uses intimidation to sell her leftover squaw dresses.
The Good Librarian    by Lorraine Ray
Price: Free! 4490 words. Published on December 5, 2011. Fiction.
An Air Force lieutenant gives his copy of a Walt Whitman book to his sister-in-law for safekeeping during the McCarthy Era, but she refuses to return it.
Consciousness Raising    by Lorraine Ray
Price: Free! 5970 words. Published on November 21, 2011. Fiction.
A young girl who endures a badgering at a consciousness raising foolishly marries a scolding, caustic husband.
I Want My Own Brain    by Lorraine Ray
Price: Free! 22390 words. Published on November 10, 2011. Fiction.
An uninhibited eight-year-old helps her aunt recover from a nervous breakdown.
Circuitous Lemon Economy    by Lorraine Ray
Price: Free! 2340 words. Published on November 2, 2011. Fiction.
A high school Algebra teacher who owns a small business strives for success in Mexico, but he gets fooled by a boy selling lemons as he crosses the border from Sonora to Arizona.
Snake Dance Disaster    by Lorraine Ray
Price: Free! 6980 words. Published on October 26, 2011. Fiction.
Two teenage boys participate in a ridiculous Snake Dance enactment at a mansion in 1960s Arizona.
On the Rio Mayo    by Lorraine Ray
Price: Free! 5420 words. Published on October 19, 2011. Fiction.
A father and son establish a closer relationship while fishing on the Sea of Cortez in 1946.

Lorraine Ray’s tag cloud

1950s    adoration    adventure    arizona    arizona author    art and impulse    beauty    betrayal    bitterness    book banning    border    bravery    comedy    comedy fiction    comedy short story    comedy writer    compulsive behavior    consciousness raising    economy    english professor    fashion humor    fashion industry    fashionable    father and son    fiction    fishing stories    gold    heart break    hispanic and anglo    hopi snake dance    horror comedy    humor    irony    leaves of grass    librarians    literature    literature fiction short stories    loneliness    love    love of life    love of world    mccarthy era    mental abuse    mexico    mining    misadventure    mountain men    nervous breakdown    orators    parades    poverty    recluse    relationship    ritual    romance adult    romance and betrayal    sea of cortez    self esteem    shyness    snob    southwest setting    southwestern    squaw dresses    tragic figures    tragic romance    vagrant    walt whitman    working classes    youth angst    youth comedy