Performance Schedule
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Pecan Pie, Cigars, and the One and Only Secret to Happiness
“Feel-good stories like the Little House on the Prairie books, except with old women drinking moonshine.” Yeah. Sure makes you think again about Pa calling Laura his “little half-pint,” doesn’t it?
Sometimes compared to Eudora Welty, Christy Marie Kent weaves humorous tales about a woman in rural Georgia in the 1940s, stories of playing poker, smoking cigars, running away to Las Vegas and learning the meaning of “getting lucky” in her wild years before she settled down and married the Baptist preacher. Spinning each tale with charming, colorful, and sometimes bittersweet details of her life in the old south, she finishes with surprising wisdom to help Christy with her modern problems of work-life balance, independence, and the one and only secret to happiness.
Although these stories are fictional, they will make you want to hug your grandmother, and then ask her what she really did before she settled down–but don’t dare to ask her if you can’t handle the answer.
Learn more about Pecan Pie, Cigars, and the One and Only Secret to Happiness.
Work in progress, yet to be named
Who among us, really, can tell the difference between a madman and one who is divinely inspired?
Emily came to Quacker Holler, Tennessee, in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, looking for peace from the voices in her head taunting her about something she is not yet ready to discuss. She seeks out Sister Candace, the 75-year-old nun, possibly a schizophrenic, probably an alcoholic, and certainly caustic, a woman who believes she hears the voices of famous authors and who secretly writes redneck vampire nun erotica, which she self-publishes in ebooks. Emily attaches herself to Candace, hoping to learn how to deal with the voices; but when the church burns to the ground with Sister Candace inside, Emily sets out to bring the arsonist to justice and to avenge the death of her mentor.
In the process, she learns about Sister Candace’s unconventional mission to help abused young women and about the people who want to it shut down. Emily and her allies must be brave enough–or desperate enough–to act unconventionally both with themselves and their mission, pushing for changes that members of old guard will go to any length to prevent.
Read more about the novel in progress.
Other publications
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