Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads - Softcover

S.R. Mallery

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989310574 ISBN 13: 9780989310574

Publisher: Mockingbird Lane Press, 2013

Synopsis

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The eleven long short stories in "Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads combine history, mystery, action and/or romance, and range from drug trafficking using Guatemalan hand-woven wallets, to an Antebellum U. S. slave using codes in her quilts as a message system to freedom; from an ex-journalist and her Hopi Indian maid solving a cold case together involving Katchina spirits, to a couple hiding Christian passports in a comforter in Nazi Germany; from a wedding quilt curse dating back to the Salem Witchcraft trials, to a mystery involving a young seamstress in the infamous Triangle Shirt Factory fire; from a 1980's Romeo and Juliet romance between a rising Wall Street financial 'star' and an eclectic fiber artist, to a Haight-Asbury love affair between a professor and a beautiful macramé artist gone horribly askew, just to name a few.

About this title

About the Author

S.R. Mallery has worn various hats in her life.First, a classical/pop singer/composer, she moved on to the professional world of production art and calligraphy. Next came a long career as an award winning quilt artist/teacher and an ESL/Reading instructor. Her short stories have been published in descant 2008, Snowy Egret, Transcendent Visions, The Storyteller, and Down In the Dirt.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mockingbird Lane Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0989310574
• ISBN 13: 9780989310574
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276