ANOVELLA IN 8CHAPTERS

The raven appears in the mythology of the Celts and many others. It often represents prophecy and insight, connecting the material world with the world of spirits.

A STORY LOCKED AWAY IN TIME

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It's Up to Me (8 and Epilogue)

Thompson Memorial Chapel, an interfaith sanctuary at Williams College, was completed in 1904 in memory of Frederick Ferris Thompson...

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Looking for a Star (7)

Baxter Hall (1954-2004), on the left, housed the Snack Bar, student union and dining hall. It was named for James Phinney Baxter III,...

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Choice: Illusory (6)

Mission Hill leads to Mission Park, named for the 10-acre tract of land bought by a group of Williams alumni in 1855 to commemorate the...

My characters -- an Irishwoman in a Druid society, a black Williams College student during the Black Movement, 17th-century buccaneers in the Caribbean, and I, myself, straddling two centuries as I emigrated from San Francisco to Sicily to Britain to Portugal -- seem disparate.

However, in whatever time or place, they have one thing in common:

Their journey toward freedom.

SACRED WATERS: 19 AND PREGNANT

As women, we often carry secrets about our pasts to our deaths.

I was told that the river in Listowel, County Kerry, was named after a woman who, upon spotting her approaching husband, drowned herself.

Feale suffered the irony of marriage to a Druid bard of peace who beat her.

Hundreds of years later, at Williams College in Massachusetts, amid the Black Movement and the Watergate scandal, a student battled expectations.

The two women carried the same secret and . . . the same soul.

ANOVELLA IN 8CHAPTERS

A STORY LOCKED AWAY IN TIME

CYNTHIAADINA KIRKWOOD

SACRED WATERS: 19 AND PREGNANT