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    Ghost orchard
    cherylaossola
    • May 1, 2019
    • 1 min

    Ghost orchard

    Before the 1920s, the town of Manzanar—which means "apple orchard" in Spanish— was a place of abundance. Founded in 1910 in the high...
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    Hiding places
    cherylaossola
    • Apr 18, 2019
    • 2 min

    Hiding places

    When I was a kid, we'd visit my grandparents most summers. Their house, a white Victorian in the Italian section of Syracuse, New York,...
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    Chapter 1, live!
    cherylaossola
    • Apr 17, 2019
    • 1 min

    Chapter 1, live!

    The Other Stories is a fun trove of readings and interviews from the not-super-well-known author pool—and yeah, that includes me. Kudos...
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    House of buried memories
    cherylaossola
    • Apr 12, 2019
    • 1 min

    House of buried memories

    In THE WILD IMPOSSIBILITY, Kira turns to her family's past as she tries to understand the bizarre dreams and visions she's having. The...
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    Secrets
    cherylaossola
    • Apr 4, 2019
    • 1 min

    Secrets

    Secrets. We all have them, if not entire truths then fragments or details. Adults sometimes regard secrets as shameful or embarrassing,...
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    Wishful thinking
    cherylaossola
    • Mar 28, 2019
    • 1 min

    Wishful thinking

    In this excerpt from THE WILD IMPOSSIBILITY, the protagonist, Kira, has the second of many "daytime dreams," as she calls them—vivid...
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    Q&A: writing, Italy, and more
    cherylaossola
    • Mar 27, 2019
    • 1 min

    Q&A: writing, Italy, and more

    Book blogger Randee Green, author of the Carrie Shatner mystery series, was kind enough to give me a presence on her site. Check out this...
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    Where joy should be
    cherylaossola
    • Mar 20, 2019
    • 1 min

    Where joy should be

    Weddings are fantasies for some people, a little girl’s dream come true, every detail masterminded—the perfect dress, flowers chosen for...
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    Looking for love
    cherylaossola
    • Mar 7, 2019
    • 2 min

    Looking for love

    Do you remember your first love? Not a crush on a kid in elementary school or the fantasy of being with a celebrity, but real love for...
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    Searching for serenity
    cherylaossola
    • Feb 27, 2019
    • 1 min

    Searching for serenity

    In The Wild Impossibility, a backyard pond, home to koi and watched over by a statue of the Virgin Mary, is a key location for the book’s...
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    Wearing the past
    cherylaossola
    • Feb 20, 2019
    • 2 min

    Wearing the past

    When does a piece of clothing become a costume? In a sense, clothing is always a costume, because every garment we wear projects an image...
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    What's in a place?
    cherylaossola
    • Feb 13, 2019
    • 2 min

    What's in a place?

    Place. For me it’s one of the most important—and enjoyable—parts of writing fiction. This is where a writer can let loose with sensory...
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    Surreal
    cherylaossola
    • Feb 6, 2019
    • 1 min

    Surreal

    Most of us, by the time we get to a certain point in life, have sat with a dying loved one, clasping their hand, trying to comprehend...
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    Behind the Book, 4
    cherylaossola
    • Jan 29, 2019
    • 3 min

    Behind the Book, 4

    When was the last time a sense of freedom made you feel as if you’d reinvented yourself? That’s what happens to 16-year-old Maddalena in...
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    Behind the Book, 3
    cherylaossola
    • Jan 22, 2019
    • 2 min

    Behind the Book, 3

    This is the third image in the series of illustrations of my novel, THE WILD IMPOSSIBILITY. (Note: someone recently asked me if these...
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    Behind the Book, 2
    cherylaossola
    • Jan 16, 2019
    • 2 min

    Behind the Book, 2

    This is the second image in the series of illustrations of my novel, THE WILD IMPOSSIBILITY. It’s a moment from a scene in a neonatal...
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    Behind the Book, 1
    cherylaossola
    • Jan 8, 2019
    • 3 min

    Behind the Book, 1

    To celebrate the upcoming publication of my novel, THE WILD IMPOSSIBILITY, I’ve commissioned watercolor sketches of moments in the book....
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