M. A. SHOREWELL

Quiet novels about small towns, long waiting, and the people who stay and the people who go.

Cover of Standpipe, a novel by M. A. Shorewell

Standpipe

A novel

A dry plateau town where the water runs three hours a day, until a girl sent to learn the wheel finds the reservoir full to the top.

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Cover of Act One, linked stories by M. A. Shorewell

Act One

Linked stories

One Midsummer the shopkeeper sits down in the village pageant instead of falling, and over one year the whole parish changes.

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Short stories, free to read

The White Cord · Standpipe · Act One

Each of these is a short story that later grew into the full book of the same name. The White Cord is out now. Standpipe, a novel, and Act One, a book of linked stories, are coming to Amazon.