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Kelly
Sinclair
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Sinclair lives in Temple, Texas, but is a transplant from the
South Plains. She has been a reporter, a rock singer-songwriter, and is
currently a librarian. One of her poems appeared in the Texas Observer political
magazine, and her computer-derived prints are featured in art galleries.
Sinclair
has worked with an experimental art-rock ensemble, written country songs
for such Texas acts as the Maines Brothers, and sung backup for funk bands
and bluegrass performers. In her writing, she follows a similar path of
exploring her creative boundaries, writing scripts, plays, and musical
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Accidental Rebels |
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It's the
summer of 1989, and in the small Texas town of Tantona, to be openly gay
is to be notorious. But three closeted women are Mandy, a young reporter, is hung up on God and women. Librarian Tina is eager to ditch old personal dramas, and rocker Cat is struggling to get her band off the ground. Unanticipated connections bring the women together... and then there's Sherron, a reckless blonde who becomes the talk of the town. When secrets
come doused in Texas barbecue sauce, all the ingredients are present for
a surprising and spicy mix.
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Lesser
Prophets
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Debra Shanrahan, a veterinarian in New South Wales, Australia, anticipates a typical day of treating hogs and other livestock. The first hog she treats seems to be suffering from an unusually bad bout of bronchitis. Hardly cause for alarm-until the hog's owner and others who were on the farm turn up dead from suspected pneumonia. Within days, people all over the world are falling suddenly, terminally ill with a virulent strain of flu. Governments either overreact or fail to take any action, but all too soon it becomes undeniably apparent that the unthinkable has happened: the Australian hog's illness has jumped from the swine species to the human species, and there's no known treatment, no cure, and no way to contain it. The pandemic decimates the population in every corner of the globe. But oddly, some people are resisting the virus, even if directly exposed to carriers. Who are these hardy survivors? They are, for the most part, a group that was previously despised, mostly unloved, and only fitfully tolerated. They are the gays and lesbians. Men and women
who were once marginalized in many societies are now elevated to be leaders
and redeemers who must find their way in a world where the old rules no
longer apply. God, or Fate, or the Omniscient Divine has intervened and
forever changed the hierarchy. Follow the riveting stories of Debra and
others who survive, in their struggle to triumph over biological Armageddon
and create a new world.
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