Watching pur French granddaughter Ella perform during Vacation Bible School Wilderness Adventures through the Sacraments 2017 at Saint Pat’s School was pure joy.
It came as a reprieve after hectic months of working on the Shifting Sands Short Stories new book that has just come out on Amazon.
My husband Ludek and I get to be with her only once a year, but for a magic time in summer.
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Today I am grateful for everything in my life.
That includes my new book Shifting Sands Short Stories with the July sun shining on it, for our French granddaughter Ella who is attending Saint Pat’s school in Parnell, for this morning’s mass at Saint Pat’s with a sense of urgency and for the Picnic Pops concert tonight in Cannonsburg with the band Chicago performing.I am grateful for my parents Ella and Vaclav Konecny who attended my first book signing on July 16 at the Fallasburg one-room schoolhouse museum.
A friend said how appropriate the 1872 schoolhouse setting was for a family of educators. Yes, it dawned on me later how many years my dad had dedicated to the education of others and his own.
He learned two new languages Spanish and French at an advanced age due to his persistence and determination.
He will be celebrating his 83rd birthday this weekend.
Happy birthday, dad. You have been the inspiration of my life.
Your infinite persistence is uprising.
Summer 2017 is the best summer in my life.
Thank you for following me on the Storyteller2017 route from writer journalist to author.You make me who I am.
Love always,
EmmaCopyright (c)2017. Emma Blogs LLC. All rights reserved.
Today’s Challenge: Be grateful for all the good in your life today.
I have yet to do that.
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You can post reviews of my new book Shifting Sands Short Stories here and on my author’s page on Goodreads.
Thank you,
Emma
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Beautiful pressed tin ceiling at the Belding Museum Belrockton.
#AsktheAuthor about the egotistical characters in in the Shifting Sands Short Stories.
In the story The Temptation of Martin Duggan, the main character is the charismatic math professor Martin, who embodies the quest for perfection.
In the end he buries his miseries and obsessions in his wife’s garden.
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The upcoming book trailer to Shifting Sands Short Stories reveals the underlying forces that push over the edge characters like the obsessive professor Martin Duggan in the Temptation of Martin Duggan.
Professor Martin buries his obsessions in his wife’s garden.
The characters shift their destinies like the grains of sand in an hour glass to emerge victorious or defeated in face of adversity.
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Useful information for everyone at a time when social media rules the scene.
Keeping up with social media can feel like a full-time job these days — and for many it is. Posting your content on Twitter and Facebook during specific hours, and keeping things evenly spaced out, means that you need to tend to your profiles pretty often.
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I am working on this very cool challenge. Thank you Becky Due for this prompt. Due to recent happenings in my life, I had to look up the meaning of the following words:
apostille
accession
Watch for the story behind these two words.
Join us at Fallasburg this Sunday for book signing of Shifting Sands Short Stories.
Come and chat with the author Emma Palova, who has a lifelong passion for history. 
Daily Post prompt Bury with book excerpts from Shifting Sands Short Stories
By Emma Palova
Not only am I buried with all the tasks around marketing my new book of short stories, but one of the early stories “The Temptation of Martin Duggan” touches on burying one’s miseries.
We often would like to bury a lot of things, and some of them we actually do in meaningless stockpiles. However, sometimes we need to refer back to them, and dig out some parts of the past.
The main character professor Martin Duggan in the story “Temptation of Martin Duggan” finds himself in this position as he confronts the major conflict in his life: and that is his son Joe.
As soon as the daylight broke, Martin grabbed a spade from the garage. There was still morning dew on Rose’s mauve tulips, as Martin started digging a hole in the middle of the garden. Soil and tulips were flying around as Martin dug deeper into the earth.
Along with the brown soil, Martin was also exhuming his suppressed past longings. He intended to bury in the hole all the role models, present and past, including the model of himself.
He ran back into the den. Rose couldn’t sleep all night long. Courageously, she went after him into what used to be his pride, his office. She looked at the rampage Martin left. Little tears, tiny like the dew drops on the destroyed mauve tulips, rolled down her swollen cheeks, as she watched the man she once had loved.
There were broken pieces of furniture scattered all around along with the broken window pane. There were blood stains on the white carpet and some of the papers.
“Martin, stop. Are you crazy?” Rose cried.
Yes.”
Martin was stuffing his books, notes and computer perforated paper into black garbage backs. He filled six bags with equations and solutions. He tied the bags up neatly and ran back into the garden.
Martin, stop, you don’t what you’re doing,” Rose cried helplessly.
He threw the garbage bags into the hole and threw dirt on top to cover them up. He worked diligently, all sweating. He made a neat mound, and stomped on it to level it.
He grabbed again the axe and wanted to chop up the pretty Danish teak furniture in the living room, he only stopped for a minute in front of the oil painting of the Dutch windmill.
“Stop, I am going to call the police,” Rose said. “Don’t you dare turn on me, you crazy fool.”
Rose walked boldly toward Martin and took away his axe. She pushed him into a chair. Martin was panting, exhausted. He was all flushed and couldn’t breathe.
The book Shifting Sands Short Stories is now available on Amazon at:
Emma’s book signing is this Sunday, July 16 at the Fallasburg one-room schoolhouse from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Everyone is invited.
Come and chat with the author in the beautiful historical setting of the 1850s pioneer village of Fallasburg.
Ask the author questions about the egotistical characters in the short stories.
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