Marylee MacDonald

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FICTION
A desperate mother goes to Prague to find her missing son (winner of the American Literary Review Fiction Prize, 2010).
Walter goes to Thailand and finds the locals staring at his birthmark (winner of the Matt Clark Prize from New Delta Review, 2009).
When Mother Gokhale moves in, Leslie Flynn must come to terms with her intercultural marriage.
CREATIVE NONFICTION
The true story of a fifteen-old girl's journey to motherhood.
An art project opens the door to a child's thoughts of death.

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Billy, a carpenter's apprentice traveling around the Midwest remodeling malls, learns his boss is planning to let him go. Billy retaliates by revealing the secret of the "Tommy Horse." (This story came in third in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition short story contest, 2010.)