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Story Ideas from Disturbing Events or Troubling Ideas

By Deb Gallardo

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In today’s Minnesota Women’s Press journalist Erin Wisness writes about local author Marianne Herrmann and her short story collection “Signaling for Rescue,” published in 2007 by New Rivers Press.  Here’s one way Marianne finds story ideas for her short stories.

Herrmann … finds what she called “kernels of a story” in disturbing events or ideas, hoping to make sense of them by giving them shape as a story. One such kernel was her mother’s loss of an infant to SIDS before Herrmann was born. Read entire article  »

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