Shaindel Rebekah Beers's Writings
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Short Story
Aug.10.2009
Colored Chalk: Issue 9: Heaven and Hell
Please read my short-short story at Colored Chalk. After all, it's only 184 words. I hope you enjoy it!:
http://coloredchalk.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=176
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Poem
Jul.07.2009
BestAmericanPoetry.com
I'm honored to announce that one of my poems is at BestAmericanPoetry.com right now.
Here's the link:
http://tinyurl.com/l6aqke
Take care and have a great summer!
Shaindel
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Article
Mar.20.2009
Contrary, Spring 2009
This piece is a book review/personal essay hybrid about what it was like to read _The Passerby_ , a true crime novel, in which I knew the victim.
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Short Story
Mar.01.2009
Damselfly Press (First Issue)
Here is the first paragraph:
Daniel had kept the ad with him for weeks—at first figuratively. He chanted it like a mantra on the bus as he gripped the aluminum bar, pretending not to notice the BO of the blonde who was always on the 6, and who consumed enough coffee that it leaked from her pores. ISO ARTIST IN NEED OF INSPIRATION. RACE, AGE, SEX NOT IMPORTANT. It...
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Short Story
Mar.01.2009
"Side of Grits" Rural Messengers Press
Here is the first paragraph. Click below for entire story:
The Shell station is a horrible ship going nowhere. She feels lucky that it is not a Mobil station or the irony would be too much. The cars drift along on their way to Hwy 10—the only road out of this—the only town—she’s known. She stands behind the counter shifting her weight from one foot to the other...
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With gem-hard language and heartrending imagery, Shaindel Beers dramatizes the lives of ordinary women and children devastated by physical and emotional violence.”
—Temple Cone, author of No Loneliness
About Shaindel
Shaindel Beers’ poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in Eastern Oregon’s high desert and serves as...
Connections
Causes Shaindel Beers Supports
Save the Children, ASPCA, Defenders of Wildlife, The Sierra Club, and The World Wildlife Fund
Shaindel’s Favorite Books
This is always a dangerous question to ask a writer. My first graduate degree is specializing in 19th Century British literature, so that explains some of my...