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Alissia J.R. LingaurWriter. Mother. Partner. ALS Fighter.
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PHOTO BY JACQUELINE SOUTHBY
This site is a door, slightly ajar, through which I may reveal some of myself while the rest remains private. Before I was diagnosed with ALS, you could find me in the woods, untangling my basset hound's leash from a tree as my boxer-catahoula-lab-husky mix looked on, ever patient. Since my diagnosis, I travel the trails through my windows and the world through my writing and my family and friends. Through them, there's hope yet.
Books
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The house has seen its share of heartbreak and laughter over a century of life on Main Street in the small northern Michigan town of Distance. Its two most recent residents, Cadence and Melody Fugue, struggle to reconcile the lives they have lived with the lives they had hoped for. Just over a year after their parents died, Cadence’s cancer has returned, and she searches for a worthy guardian for her toddler son. Melody wrestles with her own demons after she moves home. Help appears in unexpected ways as the sisters face the most difficult summer of their lives.
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Welcome to Kinston, a small town in northern Michigan just an hour southeast of the Mackinac Bridge.
On a sweltering August afternoon in 2001, Sarah Fairweather crashes her father’s classic Corvette through the windows of the Trainstop, the town’s only restaurant, owned and operated by her grandmother, Lily Patria. Sarah kills her husband and an innocent woman eating ice cream. Against the backdrop of Kinston with its rural inhabitants, worries, and power struggles, three generations of Patria women strive to cope with Sarah’s actions and the compelling demands of family, in-laws, and community, the pressures of love, and their contradictory definitions of happiness, as they ultimately decide whether to rebuild the restaurant that binds them or close it forever. Purchase a copy on Amazon here. |
Other Publications
Various poems and stories have appeared in the award-winning NMC Magazine, of
which I was the literary adviser for 11 years.
which I was the literary adviser for 11 years.
Find "Nine Months" online in Bodega, 126.
"Drowning" was my very first published story, flash fiction in The Villa, the online arm of
Straylight Literary Arts Magazine, which is now just Straylight.
Straylight Literary Arts Magazine, which is now just Straylight.