Writing and Poetry
Margy's Bio
Margaret Meola was born and raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Fair Hill, MD. She has been married for over forty years and has spent most of her life as a domestic engineer. She has three children, a late son and two daughters, three granddaughters and numerous pets which include four dogs, seven cats, four lizards and two fish to date.
She earned a degree in marketing and management, which coincided with her banking career. After fifteen-years, she returned to her duties as a homemaker , and at that time began pursuing her interest in writing.
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Prairie Town Spirits
Summary
In 1969, a nine-year-old girl, Marty, along with two of her older sisters Karen and Sandra, an older brother Kenny and a younger brother Danny are forced to live in an old schoolhouse in the ghost town of Lone Tree, Colorado, with their oldest sister Jill, her husband Ted and their two small children four-year-old Mindy and two-year-old Sharon. Because her single mom is impoverished and does not have money to support her children, she has no choice but to leave them there to seek work in the city of Grand Junction, nearly three hundred miles away.The wide-open prairie has many spirits roaming around, including those of Indian tribes.
Marty meets two of these spirit incarnates—a gray mouse, Gray Beard, who in a previous life was her own grandfather, and a coyote, Standing Tall, a transformed Crow Indian chief who is a friend and protector to Gray Beard.Gray Beard and Standing Tall reach out to guide and comfort Marty as she struggles with her brother-in-law Ted’s increasingly mean, vindictive ways. Marty and her siblings, including Jill and her two girls, are stranded isolated in the desert landscape and repeatedly forced to suffer abuse at Ted’s hands. But they learn to adapt to their surroundings by counting on their own prairie grit along with the intervention of Gray Beard and Standing Tall and eventually attempt to band together to escape the wiles of this evil troubled man and find their way to freedom.
