I’m M. K. Waller, aka Kathy, former teacher, former librarian, former paralegal, and former pianist at various small churches desperate for someone who could find middle C.
I write crime fiction, literary fiction, humor (I hope), memoir, and whatever else comes to mind.
I grew up in Fentress, population ~ 150 in 1960, on the San Marcos River in Central Texas, the Blackland Prairie, where pickups hauled hay and kids and horses, guns killed the occasional
rattlesnake, Miss Pedula the milk cow grazed by the roadside, and a dear old gentleman named Dick Ward sold double-dip ice cream cones for a nickel.
Old ladies played dominoes on front porches in the afternoons, and old men gossiped on benches outside the post office. There were still horned toads and lightning bugs, and mosquitoes were one-tenth the size they are now. In 1983, my parents finally installed working locks on the doors.
Life was good. I would like to have the mosquitoes and the nickel ice cream and the old people back. A few things, however, are best left behind.
Memories provide grist for my word mill.
I now live in Austin, Texas, with a husband who writes and produces short-short videos which, like the city, have been described as weird.
Husband
Husband’s website and ongoing story, Alien Resort
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Books
Available in paperback and ebook formats
DARK OF THE DAY: ECLIPSE STORIES
Edited by Kaye George
Down and Out Books, April 1, 2024
Stories by Cari Dubiel, Katherine Tomlinson, Carol L. Wright, Joseph S. Walker, John Rogers Clark IV, M. K. Waller, Toni Goodyear, Laura Oles, Bridges DelPonte, Eric Beckstrom, Kaye George, Paula Gail Benson, John M. Floyd, Debra H. Goldstein, Michael Bracken, and James A. Hearn.
“MINE EYES DAZZLE”
Jean says her marriage to Stephen is a miracle. She takes seriously her vow to be her blind husband’s eyes. But when a second miracle happens, marital bliss suffers a breakdown. If Stephen insists on living his own life, how can Jean keep him safe?
Available in Paperback and Ebook format from Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon
Starpath, 2019
Available in paperback and ebook formats from Amazon, BookPeople, and Barnes & Noble
MURDER ON WHEELS
Austin Mystery Writers
Ramona Defelice Long, ed.
Wildside, 2015
LONE STAR LAWLESS
Austin Mystery Writers
Ramona DeFelice Long, ed.
Wildside, 2017
DAY OF THE DARK
Kaye George, ed.
Wildside, 2017
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