Camille LaPlume
Two Independence Day odysseys, one takes
place in 1914, the other in 1958. Two young
women, Margaret Stanton and her grandmother,
Lillian—the same farmhouse, the same town, the
same amusement park—collide in an adventure
across time on the banks of Nine Mile Creek.
Three generations of a proud family’s
heartbreak is finally resolved.
Margaret uses her vivid imagination and stories
about the olden days, told to her as a young
child by her grandmother, to solve a mystery
discovered in an old cistern in the forbidden
attic of the family farmhouse.
The landscape of this story is an overlay of two
worlds, one of trolley cars and horse-drawn
sleighs, the other of a rambling old farmhouse in
a small mill town in the 1950s.
place in 1914, the other in 1958. Two young
women, Margaret Stanton and her grandmother,
Lillian—the same farmhouse, the same town, the
same amusement park—collide in an adventure
across time on the banks of Nine Mile Creek.
Three generations of a proud family’s
heartbreak is finally resolved.
Margaret uses her vivid imagination and stories
about the olden days, told to her as a young
child by her grandmother, to solve a mystery
discovered in an old cistern in the forbidden
attic of the family farmhouse.
The landscape of this story is an overlay of two
worlds, one of trolley cars and horse-drawn
sleighs, the other of a rambling old farmhouse in
a small mill town in the 1950s.
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I also write short fiction, personal essay, creative non-fiction, and memoir.
My work has appeared in the Ink-Filled Page, and Oregon Literary Review.
When I completed the first draft of a memoir, Growing Up Nancy, I read it
and realized that my mother and a few others might be insulted or mad if I
published that story. And the idea of engaging these interesting characters
and interesting places in a fictional tale was too compelling to ignore. So I
put the memoir aside and wrote Nine Mile Creek.
To read an excerpt of Growing up Nancy, Click Here.
My work has appeared in the Ink-Filled Page, and Oregon Literary Review.
When I completed the first draft of a memoir, Growing Up Nancy, I read it
and realized that my mother and a few others might be insulted or mad if I
published that story. And the idea of engaging these interesting characters
and interesting places in a fictional tale was too compelling to ignore. So I
put the memoir aside and wrote Nine Mile Creek.
To read an excerpt of Growing up Nancy, Click Here.
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Contact me:
camille@camillecole.com
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