Community Voices
Volume I
2020
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Community Voices
Volume I 2020
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-942337-16-4
I. Literary Collections / American / General
II. Literary Collections / Essays
III. Fiction / General / Anthologies
T he publisher respectfully acknowledges permission to print the following works by order of appearance:
Katrina Everhart: The Drawer in the Mantelpiece
Copyright 2020 Katrina Everhart
Laurie Hampton: Shameless
Copyright 2020 Laurie Hampton
Anna Hawes: Dog Rescue
Copyright 2020 Anna Hawes
Norma King: A Newspaper Carol
Copyright 2020 Norma King
Joy Ludwig: An excerpt from Unconditional , chapter one
Copyright Joy Ludwig
Alice M. Nathan: How Branson Became the Music Capital of the Country: The True Story
Copyright 2019 Alice M. Nathan
Nancy McAuley: Dangerous Waters
Copyright 2020 Nancy McAuley
Marian Rakestraw: Save the Whale
Copyright 2020 Marian Rakestraw
Ronald C. Thiewes: A Retriever
Copyright 2020 Ronald C. Thiewes
Mary Thompson: Ellas Wish
Copyright 2020 Mary Thompson
Leah Berg: A Chance Meeting
Copyright 2020 Leah Berg
John W. Bruce: You Have to Live to Understand It: My experience in Vietnam
Copyright 2020 John W. Bruce
Steve Daily: Understanding Self-Harm and Suicidal Urges
Copyright 2020 Steve Daily
Patricia Hamarstrom: Prairie Girl: Nettie Wussows Story Beginnings
Copyright 2020 Patricia Hamarstrom
Claudia Hoke: Martha An Exception Woman from the 1800s
Copyright 2020 Claudia Hoke
Joyce Johnson Lindsey: Does Your Child Have Intellectual Deficits?
Copyright 2020 Joyce Johnson Lindsey
Donna Madison: A Courageous Soldiers Desire for Independence:
Struggled to Hide Her Gender
Copyright 2020 Donna Madison
PJ Parker: An excerpt from Stealing Jean , a memoir in progress
Copyright 2020 PJ Parker
George Pettigrew: Slave to Soldier: A Quest for Freedom
Copyright 2020 George Pettigrew
Michael R. Wilson: Was It Devine Intervention or a Fluke?
Copyright 2020 Michael R. Wilson
Table of Contents
Foreword
Fiction
The Drawer in the Mantelpiece
Katrina Everhart
Shameless
Laurie Hampton
Dog Rescue
Anna Hawes
A Newspaper Carol
Norma King
from Unconditional
Joy Ludwig
How Branson Became the Music Capital of the Country:
The True Story
Alice M. Nathan
Dangerous Waters
Nancy McAuley
Save the Whale
Marian Rakestraw
A Retriever
Ronald C. Thiewes
Ellas Wish
Mary Thompson
A Chance Meeting
Leah Berg
You Have to Live to Understand It:
My Experience in Vietnam
John W. Bruce
Understanding Self-Harm and Suicidal Urges
Steve Daily
Prairie Girl:
Nettie Wussows Story Beginnings
Patricia Hamarstrom
Martha An Exceptional Woman from the 1800s
Claudia Hoke
Does Your Child Have Intellectual Deficits?
Joyce Johnson Lindsey
A Courageous Soldiers Desire for Independence:
Struggled to Hide Her Gender
Donna Madison
from Stealing Jean
PJ Parker
Slave to Soldier:
A Quest for Freedom
George Pettigrew
Was It Devine Intervention or a Fluke?
Michael R. Wilson
O ne of the three quotations displayed on the shelves that hold the Story Center Collection is from poet and storyteller Maya Angelou: There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. In just twelve words, she communicates a fundamental need many people have: to express themselves in narrative forms. And by not specifying types of stories, modes of storytelling, or varieties of storytellers, she implies that stories are universal. Those dozen words gather momentum until the last, when, using the second person you, Angelou simultaneously challenges, implores, and encourages the reader, as a matter of dire importance, to identify and find a way to tell that one story that must be told.
This charge resonates with the mission The Story Center at Mid-Continent Public Library. Established in 2013, The Story Center provides services that empower people create stories, share those stories, and connect with the stories of others. The Story Center Certificate Program, offered in partnership with Metropolitan Community College and funded in part by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, is a series of free learning opportunities that help participants to create, develop, and market their stories, whether those stories are real or imagined, historical or contemporary, written or performed. Woodneath Press, the Story Centers imprint, publishes original works by Kansas City-based authors or about the Kansas City region.
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