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Michael Kelley
Biography
I am a former newspaper reporter, columnist and editorial writer now working as a freelance writer in Santa Fe, N.M. I grew up in Joplin, Mo., and spent most of my career in Memphis, Tennessee, where I also earned a masters degree in English with a concentration on linguistics. My novel, Tent City, is set in 1960 Mississippi against the backdrop of the voting rights movement. My novella, Fred and June: Journeys, is about a transgender woman and her boyhood friend. My latest piece, The Fountain, is about a middle-age couple who discover that eternal youth can have a downside.
Books
The Fountain
by Michael Kelley
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 22,720.
Language:
English.
Published: September 25, 2020
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Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
The Fountain, a novella by Michael Kelley set against the backdrop of political turmoil that readers will find familiar, describes the discovery by a middle-age couple that eternal youth can have a downside. James and Peg Sanders had not thought much about a family legend dating to the 17th Century, but the legend would eventually become the centerpiece of their lives.
Fred and June: Journeys
by Michael Kelley
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 21,490.
Language:
English.
Published: January 4, 2019
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Categories:
Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
Fred and June: Journeys describes the reunion of two people who have undergone dramatic changes since they walked home from school together in Santa Fe, New Mexico. June, in fact, no longer identifies as a boy. But they still find a way to help each other through some difficult circumstances.
Tent City: A Mississippi Story
by Michael Kelley
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 62,400.
Language:
English.
Published: August 7, 2016
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Categories:
Fiction » Historical » USA
(5.00 from 1 review)
Set during the voting rights campaign in Mississippi, Tent City tells the story of planter William Flair, who follows his conscience when tenant farmers who have been evicted from their homes ask to set up camp on the Flair plantation. When a protest leader is murdered and three protesters are wrongly accused, it is up to William and a sympathetic deputy sheriff to set the record straight.