A Twist of Lemon
Author Arlene Hemingway discovered that every person, place, or thing is rich with stories wanting to be told.
When asked about a relationship to Ernest Hemingway, Arlene’s reply is often, “I’m the other Hemingway; the one without the six-toed cats!”
After graduating with an MS from Juilliard School of Music with a major in organ, Arlene Duane Hemingway began teaching piano and vocal music in a Long Island public school system, and served as organist for religious services of various faiths. She performed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Radio City Music Hall, worked numerous other musical events in New York, and launched a composer’s new work at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
It was after Arlene’s retirement and during a visit to a writer’s group in Farmingdale, NY, that she discovered the “drabble,” a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length. She was hooked! A recent move to the Asheville area gave her more room to breathe, listen, and write. Arlene discovered that every person, place, or thing is rich with stories wanting to be told … and she has just scratched the surface.
A Twist of Lemon is wickedly funny, suspenseful, intense and intriguing. You will be immediately drawn into to this collection of 100 masterfully crafted 100-word stories—a.k.a. “drabbles.” Every word has been carefully chosen for style and content to create mesmerizing tales and characters. Covering a range of topics and emotions, these briefest of narratives provide plenty of food for thought—with enough love, hatred, malice, surprise, humor, deception, reckoning, treachery, and mystery to suit every taste.
If this is your first experience with microfiction, you will soon be hooked. If you are already a fan of the genre, prepare to be delighted.
