Jim Musgrave

Jim Musgrave

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James Musgrave(a.k.a. Efraim Zimbalist Graves) is an author and college educatorin San Diego, California. His recent non-fiction title, The DigitalScribe: a Writer's Guide to Electronic Media (AP Professional, ISBN0-12-512255-1) has been internationally published. He has a M.A.degree in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. He wasawarded the Ebook of the Year Award,2001-2002 from Bookbooters for his thriller, RussianWolves. In addition, Mr. Musgrave has finished as a Finalist in theNew Century Writer Awards for his novel excerpt, Iron Maiden, andRunner-Up in the $10,000 Annual Heekin Foundation Awards for NewFiction Writers (1994). He has published short fiction in manyliterary journals, including: San Diego Writer's Monthly, ShroudAnthology Beneath the Surface, Stone Magazine, FirstDraft, SniplitsAudio Short Stories 2 Go, Back Channels, Pacific Review, CaliforniaQuarterly and Cowles Mountain Journal. He has also been publishedat CIC Publishers with four novels: Sins of Darkness, RussianWolves, Iron Maiden and Lucifer's Wedding and acollection of short fiction, The President'sParasite and Other Stories. Mr. Musgrave'sstory, "Speculum" was an HonorableMention in the Fog City Writer's Awards, and"Turning the Law Wheel" was anHonorable Mention in the Cedar Hill Press Short FictionContest.  His literary fiction appears in Best New Writing 2011, published by Hopewell Press, Titusville, N. J.

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

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