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Carol Ayer is a freelance writer, living in Northern California. Her poetry, essays, and short stories have appeared in various print and online publications, and her romance novella, Storybook Love, was published by Wild Child Press.
Carol has won awards from Artella, The Lucidity Poetry Journal, Brady Magazine, and WOW-Women on Writing. She is currently at work on a novel.
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Favorite Authors
Alexander McCall Smith
Ann Patchett
Elizabeth Berg
Anita Shreve
Janet Evanovich
Sue Grafton
CA: Thanks for the question, Tom. I write essays, poems and longer fiction as well as short stories, and I like each for different reasons. Short stories of course aren't as complex as longer works, but in a way they are more challenging because an author has so few words to work with. A short must still have an interesting plot, good character development, dialogue that advances the story, and all that other good stuff. Overall, I guess it depends on my mood!
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Short Stories
She Had a Great Fall, published by The Prairie Times, February 2008.
Turning the Page, published by The Prairie Times, January 2008.
This Bunny Thing Called Love, published by The Prairie Times, December 2007.
Easy to Love, published by Woman’s World, January 2004.
Essays
The Summer of ’72, When Anything Seemed Possible, published by Christian Science Monitor, April 2008.
The Joy of Renting, published by True Real Estate Stories, November 2006.
I Learned the Truth at Thirteen, published in Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul, September 2005.
Body Work, published in Chicken Soup to Inspire a Woman's Soul, August 2004.
Poetry
Twenty Twenty, published by Flashquake, Summer 2006
Afternoon at Grandfather’s House, published in the anthology, Freckles to Wrinkles, edited by Ginny Greene, Becky Haigler, Kerin Riley-Bishop, published by Silver Boomer Books, July 2008
Anthologies