Catherine Ryan Hyde's Writings
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Aug.22.2010
Red Room Original
By Catherine Ryan Hyde
A few weeks ago I made a new "Internet friend" from Kentucky, a young gay book blogger who told me the following story.
After discovering reading as an escape, a place where he "felt normal," he had the courage to ask the school librarian why--in stacks of books about gangs, drugs, and teen pregnancy--he found not one...
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Short Story
Aug.03.2010
Michigan Quarterly Review
Blue Dog in the Crazy Truck
I have to tell you this story so I can tell you the real one.
When Pippin and I were both seven, my father and I were taking her for a walk. We were passing in front of that little store on the next block, which had been boarded up for years, only on that day some new business was moving in. Three big guys were wheeling stuff...
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Short Story
Oct.12.2009
Eureka Literary Magazine
Fortunate Son
The night before I met Jeannetta Constantine I was wakened by a knock at my door. It was a little before nine. I go to bed early.
I had the moment. That two or three seconds where I wake up and I know who and where I am but not much else. Everything...
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Short Story
Oct.12.2009
New Letters magazine
Witness to Breath
Every night on her way home she goes by Phan's Round-the-Clock Market. Usually about three. Different reasons; different things. On a good night maybe cigarettes. Maybe gum. Bad night maybe aspirin. Pepto Bismol. Tonight she should...
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About Catherine
Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of 18 published and forthcoming books including the newest releases Don't Let Me Go, Jumpstart the World, Second Hand Heart and When I Found You. Other novels in print are Becoming Chloe, Love in the...
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Causes Catherine Hyde Supports
The Pay It Forward Foundation, Marriage Equality (See Human Rights Campaign), the 350 movement to help ease global climate change, LandWatch San Luis Obispo...