Writer, Interrupted
stories that light up the empty places
The Color of Loss
One year, then another
Meet the new, same as the old?
And in the end -
A long and winding road.
What the Bibles Say
The real truths are not always written down.
The Joy Diary
My joys are mostly private, small-scale . . .
Good night, and good luck
It was in 1940 that Edward R. Murrow . . .
Thanksgiving 2.0
October, and it’s snowing
There’s Something About Mary
Tell me more!
Roses Rush In
A Gardener’s dilemma…
The Empty Places
A NOVEL
COMING SOON
THE EMPTY PLACES
A NOVEL BY MARY MCCLUSKE
Three women. Their story fills a century. Norwegian immigrant Berit raises a family on the harsh edge of the Dakota badlands. When beautiful Millie marries her son, Berit finds a soul mate. But as Millie seeks to tame the demons of a troubled past, her daughter Linda struggles for a lifetime to break loose from the twisted dance with her mother’s madness. In her sixties, faced with an unbearable loss, Linda’s life becomes a wasteland. Can she will herself to heal? To fill the empty places with the gifts of the mother and grandmother she never truly knew?
THE WOMEN
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mary McCluske holds an MFA in writing from Hamline University. She has worked in philanthropy and as a literary publicist. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in literary magazines and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, The mother of two adult children, she lives in St. Paul with her husband. The Empty Places is her first novel.
