Carolyn J. Lewis is an award-winning short story writer. Her stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Maxine Kumin, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, accepted into an anthology on rural writing by Fred Chappell, Poet Laureate of North Carolina, accepted as the lead story in the South Dakota Review by editor Geraldine Sanford, noted in the Novel and Short Story Market as a vibrant new voice by The Sycamore Review at Purdue University, placed in the Heekin Group Foundation award, and placed in the semifinals of the the Pirate's Alley William Faulkner awards. A collection of stories is now currently with an agent and seeking a publisher.
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Latest Story
I played a child’s birth with a doomed legacy, only the sound the unspoken dark notes of minors and flats. I played a young boy with a voice from God: major C, sweet major G. I played a child who was not afraid to be alone: strong D and D diminished seventh wherein the fear trembled and then was taken up. I played a man who was listened to, because his words were carefully chosen, a tired man whose compassion was spoken: powerful F, soft E flat. I would have played the last supper, but I did not know what betrayal sounded like.
I did not know then how close my own loss was.
The music may have only been noise to my father, but it pealed out from the flute, circled up to the dark cross, wrapped itself around Christ’s body, leapt across the stained glass window, and turned and pealed out the open door, where I heard its distant moan and lilt echoing out across the night bay, where Te-bik-ke-ze, the Ojibwa moon, like God, was silent.
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Editor and Writer For Hire
Carolyn J. Lewis is a legal, scholarly and literary editor, and has been so for 30 years. She was one of a hundred attorneys who worked as a legal editor for West Publishing Company on the encyclopedia of law called Corpus Juris Secundum, the 2nd Body of Law, which is comprised of all of the legal cases in the United States at the appellate level and above in every area of law. When her daughter was born in 1988, she became a freelance scholarly editor, as well, working in the field of scholarly books at the college level, for such companies as Berghahn Books, a scholarly publisher. Carolyn currently maintains an editing position open to all books: novels, scholarly books, children’s books, legal documents and books, and manuscripts of all kinds. Please contact her regarding rate fees and scheduling. Phone: (231) 223-9880, or email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Old Mission Peninsula
Carol and her husband, Steve, are editors and publishers of the Old Mission Peninsula Historical Society newsletter, a semi-annual account of the doings and works of the people involved in the Historical Society of this unique peninsula. It is here where the first white settler, Peter Dougherty, arrived in Old Mission Peninsula in 1839, and built a 10 bedroom house by hand, the first frame house north of Grand Rapids and south of the Mackinac Bridge. It is a good thing, as 10 children were born to the Doughertys. Through enormous work, the Dougherty-Rushmore House is now preserved. Due to the hard working efforts of the historical society and the graciousness of Peninsula Township, it stands as a monument to our extraordinary beginnings.
