Alethea D Eason | Author

Alethea D Eason
Author of Heron's Path, Spectacle Media Publishing Group

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PUBLISHED: Dec.29.2008

Turtle Soup

Pilar's father brings a sea turtle home from the day's fishing. He announces that the village will have a fiesta of turtle soup. Pilar names the turtle Antonio and is horrified because at school she has learned there are not many sea turtles left. With her ingenuity and a surprise from Antonio, the village soon celebrates, not a good meal of turtle soup, but the hatching of...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.02.2008

Hungry

Would you eat your best friend if your parents told you to? Better known as Dbrrrksh on the Home World, Deborah is a 6th grade alien girl living with her family´s secret: they eat people. Her parents are preparing Earth to be the next fast food stop for their species. To make things worse, they tell her she must prove her loyalty to the Home World by snacking on Willy, the boy...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.2004

Threshold

From the back of the book: Eason is a born mythmaker. Her poetry is hallucinatory, oracular, gritty, and elegant, and her mythopoetic heart never fails to turn the human condition into epic song, one that redeems us all. Bruce McAllister, DREAM BABY Alethea Eason's images split the world open with new inspirations as she explores a modern woman's sense of self. Her work is...

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Alethea's Latest Blogs

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Jun.28.2009 - 11:19 am

Leaving

Leaving Mexican Twirlers (for lack of a better term) on a summer day in Valparaiso celebrating Mexican culture and the amistad entre Chile y Mexico. Three weeks left to...

Apr.12.2009 - 3:52 pm

Notes from the English Department: Easter in Fall

I'm writing as the sun is beginning to get low. A slow afternoon of not much going on. For lunch, we had salmon bought right from the fishmonger. One of them once told Bill he...

Apr.04.2009 - 7:11 pm

Notes from the English Department

Rose and Moon photo credit Sandra Edwards

Last night we decided to take the coastal route on the bus ride home from Vina del Mar. We got off far enough from the steps that lead up to our house for a chance to walk along...

Mar.24.2009 - 2:50 pm

Notes from the English Department

Sandra and Alberto, my neighbors, had their stolen car returned to them by the Carabineros, the official state police of Chile. Unfortunately, the stereo, the ignition, several...

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Feb.01.2009 - 7:29 am

In response to: Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt

Thank you

I appreciate your commenting on the blog. Yes, better safe than sorry when it comes to those showers, I think. Off to...

Feb.01.2009 - 7:27 am

In response to: Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt

Thank you

Thank you so much for your comment!!!! We're heading north tomorrow to see what we can before school starts for me...

Jan.30.2009 - 10:57 am

In response to: How I Blew $200 In Advertising

Book sales

This week I was made the "rising star" on Redroom and, on the same day, my novel Hungry started to sell for 1...

Jan.30.2009 - 10:52 am

In response to: Why Do Fundamentalist Christians Hate God So Much?

Thank you

The God you describe was the one I was raised with, one in which was not only a dictator, but a sadistic torturer. For...

Jan.30.2009 - 6:42 am

In response to: 'Have Drank' or 'Have Drunk'? The Answer Is Closer Than Many Realize

drank/drunk and hillybilly talk

I loved reading this. I'm college educated and published. My father went to the sixth grade. My mom made it through...

Writing

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Short Story: A Fixer of Boys

Short Story: The Unicorns of Kabustan

Poem: Bastille Day

About Alethea

Alethea Eason is a writer, teacher, and free-lance editor. Heron’s Path, a young adult fantasy novel, published by Spectacle Media Publishing Group as an eBook, will be available through Amazon in March, 2012. Set in an alternative universe of northern...

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Connections

Alethea’s Favorite Books

More often than not, the one I´m reading. But: The Land of the Grasshopper Song, Bel Canto, Frog and Toad are Friends, anything by Connie Willis