Honorable Mention!!
My cozy mystery novella Shards of Fine Diamonds,
won an Honorable Mention from the Nero Wolfe Society/Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine 1922 Black Orchid Novella contest. 
 
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"The Ice Cream Truck: Normal in an Un-Normal World" in Exception/All: An Anthology Exploring What It Means to Be Normal -- Writing Heights 2023 Anthology

​There's rhetoric abut the new normal. There's clamoring to go back to normal...no one can actually define normality...None of us is normal by any standard.

...It began under a cerulean sky, as blue as the beguiling luster of melancholia draping itself over my fragile being. Boys dangled down in the family room, legs over the easy chairs, playing nonstop video games. I wept that Sunday. I wept for the unending car blasts, the rat-a-tat-tat machine gun discharges, the body-shock bomb explosions that came from their three hours of electronic violence. I wept because I missed my mother's funeral. I wept because my oldest, Cory, got caught selling his Adderall to a second grader. I wept for the fate of mankind, the loss of childhood, the innocence of young women, the independence of cats. I wept because, in the end, we are all alone struggling on a spinning rock in the middle of an uncertain and uncaring universe. 
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"That Donnelly Crowd"  in 2019 The Best American Mystery Stories -- Jonathan Lethem, editor

                                                                                                         

Enjoy Mark Stevens RMFW podcast:  False Faces Produces Two "Best American Mystery Stories" If there has ever been a reason to declare "Breaking News" around Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, this might be it.  For more than 20 years, editor Otto Penzler has been publishing a volume called the Best American Mystery Stories. As part of that process, he reads some 500 short stories and passes along the best 50 to a guest editor. That guest editor then chooses the top 20 to be published. This year, the guest editor is Jonathan Lethem and out of the 20 stories to be published two were selected from RMFW’s False Faces short story anthology, which came out last year. 
The two writers are Anne Therese Macdonald (“That Donnelly Crowd") and Suzanne Proulx ("If You Say So").
On the podcast, we chat with False Faces editors Angie Hodapp and Warren Hammond and then with each of the two writers—whose work will go national later this year.  As if that’s not enough great news for False Faces, the anthology was also named this week as a finalist for the Colorado Book Awards. Yes, more Breaking News.


                                                                                                                                                    


Welcome to the website for author Anne Therese Macdonald. She is primarily known for her short stories, which have been featured in journals such as Blue Earth Review, Dublin Quarterly Review, and the Belletrist Review. Her debut novel, "A Short Time in Luxembourg" was published in 2004 by Gardenia Press.

Please follow the links above for excerpts, select short stories, reviews, and further information.