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E H Storm: Twenty Questions

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Q1: Describe "The Coldest Case" in a sentence. A1: A classic battle of humor vs tragedy, hope vs fear, and truth vs lie, and all the other little battles that rage daily to shape our existence. Q2: You've returned to writing after a long hiatus. What made you come back? A2: I never stopped writing, but I gave up on fiction. I was writing dark, dirgy fiction, trying desperately to be Raymond Carver. I had a couple of pieces published and looked up at the mountain I was climbing and said, "Nah." Q3: "The Coldest Case" is hardly "dark and dirgy." What changed in 20 years to lighten you up? A3: Nothing, that's the funny part. In fact, age and all of the crap that comes with it, should make everything darker! I'd say the short answer is that anyone who knows me knows that I'm a clown, and the "Cleveburn Biddies" are closer to my natural state of nonsense. Q4: You use that word -- nonsense -- a lot to describe your work. Self-...
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Rise of the Cleveburn Biddies: Chapter 1

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Welcome! Please enjoy this first chapter of Rise of the Cleveburn Biddies , an urban cozy mystery coming soon from Napping Cat Press. ROTCB is inspired by a true story. Rise of the Cleveburn Biddies by  Jeffrey Dean, writing as  E.H. Storm Chapter 1 Vi Brennen stood inside the screen door of the little cottage by the lake, peering out occasionally to see if the car was coming. Sometimes she’d look at the phone on the kitchen wall, her stomach in freefall, and consider calling her sister, Toots, to say that she’d changed her mind. Doing so would ease the anxiety, of course; it would also mean that she would be facing the winter here alone. Really alone, now that Charlie was gone. And while the opaque white cloud of the unknown was scary and nerve-wracking, the dark gray cloud of loneliness that had settled over the cottage was suffocating. And certain .              So she didn’t move from the door, and continued...
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