Mary Ann Noe
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Mary Ann Noe

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Working with words is in my genes. My grandmother never wrote a simple note; it was always in verse. In response to a request from her son for a loan, she scratched on an envelope, “You have been to me kind and true / So I’ll fork over a five to you.” A generation down the line, my mother kept meticulous trip records. I remember beginning my first short story on a family trip when I was eight or nine. It was one of those Bulwer-Lytton prize-winning gems, starting off something like, “The midnight clock struck in the village. Bong! Bong! B—“ You get the picture. So much for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. From there I worked my way into high school poetry, filled with angst and word choice so purple as to be almost fluorescent. Some of it I have since reworked, and, like Kafka, I hope the old stuff is burned. Eventually, experiences I observed or experienced began a persistent knocking on the inside of my brain, and I had to get them down on paper. Writing essays taught me that I could slash and burn; editing didn’t leave scars. Over the 25 years I spent in the trenches teaching middle school and high school English, I complained about not having enough time to write. However, a few years ago, that persistent, albeit infrequent, knocking from inside my head to write something down became poundings and hollerings. Fortuitously, on an airplane from Los Angeles to Milwaukee, I had packed a yellow legal pad and a pen in my carry-on. By the time we landed, I had sixteen pages of frantic scrawlings. At the moment, my own story, my writing life, continues to evolve, and I am having fun watching where all this is taking me. I thought I’d somehow “dry up,” but writing seems to be a lot like reading; once you start, the first just makes you thirsty for another, and then another. Now, I continue to write because I am compelled to. Follow me at www.maryannnoe.com.
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