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Tales of love gone wrong and other Western phenomena

Catherine deCuir's book reviews, fiction, and poetry have appeared in two dozen print publications, including The Woman Source Catalog and Review, Seventeen, Bottomfish, and The Bellingham Review. Catherine runs the Journals site at The Mining Company. The three short stories presented here have been excerpted from works in progress. She is currently working on a novel, The Irish Soprano. Catherine is married to Peter Goodman, publisher of Stone Bridge Press in Berkeley, California.