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The Other side of the bed and beyond
by Linda Freudenberger
Paper
List: $17.99
979-8-88838-442-8
2024
The Other Side of the Bed and Beyond is a journey of grief following the sudden death of the author’s husband of forty-two years of marriage. During the healing process, she shares glimpses of love, loss, and memories of the life they shared. Other themes emerged along the way. Nature poems about trees, dogs, and tropical fish. Family poems about her dad, her grandsons that she nicknamed The Sheriff & the Outlaw, and her beloved Westie, Clancy, fill the pages of this personal, heartfelt collection.
Linda Freudenberger, a retired occupational therapist, lives in Lexington, Ky with her Westie, Clancy, a certified therapy dog. She began writing in 2017 after the loss of her husband of forty-two years by taking writing classes at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning and enrolling in the Author Academy in 2019 under her mentor, Sylvia Ahrens, who sparked an interest in poetry. Her story, “The Call” was published in The Personal Publishing Project anthology, Bearing Up, edited by Randell Jones in 2018. “In the Holler” was published in the anthology, That Southern Thing, edited by Jones in 2020. “His Final Act of Kindness” was published in the anthology Luck and Opportunity edited by Jones in 2021. Her story “Bowtie Whimsy” was included in the 2022 anthology Curious Stuff also edited by Jones. She has three essays on the online grief site, opentohope.com. She completed a fictional novella about a teahouse that she is submitting for publication. In 2020 she participated in the yearlong Poetry Gauntlet led by Christopher McCurry writing 112 poems. Her poem, “Communion” was published in 2021 Literary Accents, Katerina Stoykova, editor. Two poems have been published on Highland Park’s Daily online poems in 2022. “The Other side of the bed” was published in Workhorse’s magazine, The Yearling 2022. This is her first chapbook.
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