Cheryl Walsh

@cherylwalsh.bsky.social

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Originally from Michigan, now writing from Iowa. Author of UNEQUAL TEMPERAMENT (American Buffalo Books, 2023). I write fiction about people who are into #harpsichords, #weather, #opera, #archaeology, and #ghosts. www.cherylwalsh.net

Cover of Terri Lewis's novella When They Came Home, head and shoulders of a faceless man is sepia tones, with a woman's face almost imperceptibly superimposed on the left.
Stack of books: The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich; Jewel, by Bret Lott; Anything Is Possible, by Elizabeth Strout; Foreign Bodies, by Cynthia Ozick; How Green Was My Valley, by Richard Llewellyn; The Ninth Hour, by Alice McDermott; The Owl Killers, by Karen Maitland; Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee, When the Emperor Was Divine, by Otsuka; To Live, by Yu Hua; The final Solution, by Michael Chabon; People in Glass Houses, by Shirley Hazzard; Elegy, by Mary Jo Bang
Cheryl and Bru on their wedding day, head and shoulders of them in front of a stained glass window.
Cover of the novel Prairie Ashes, by Ben Nadler
On Passing the New Menin Gate Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns? Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,— Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones? Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own. Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp; Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone, The armies who endured that sullen swamp. Here was the world's worst wound. And here with pride 'Their name liveth for ever,' the Gateway claims. Was ever an immolation so belied As these intolerably nameless names? Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime. ~ Siegfried Sassoon, 1927
Black and white photo of two pairs of clasped hands, wrinkled and gnarled, next to each other from across a table, not touching.
"There was something comforting about handling a machine.... The inexplicable could be explained, the right decision implicit in the conditions. Incorrect decisions were measurable. And if something went wrong, there would be a solution. Or at least a clear reason for scrapping the heap." Unequal Temperament, Cheryl Walsh
Photo of pine trees against a dark sky with the tips illuminated by moonlight.
large metal bowl full of dragon tongue beans: purple speckled wax beans.
Neil Hornick as the Phantom Captain, holding the book "The Best Man's Duties," with Bruce Hart, the groom.
John Pochee playing drums and Bernie McGann wiping his forehead during a performance at a jazz club.
Wall made of gray cut stones in rows of various heights.
Five ripe red tomatoes on the vine.
Photo of rosemary patch with two hands harvesting with scissors.
View of highway in driver's side mirror.
Bru and Cheryl, groom and bride, looking at each other and holding champagne flutes.
Eight geese flying in a misty blue sky.
Cover of Brian Castleberry's novel The Californians.
Text superimposed on a sketchy landscape of green and brown.
Cover of Diana McCaulay's novel A House for Miss Pauline.
Close-up photo of sunflower seeds germinating.
Photo of a nave-like meeting room with a chandelier.
Close-up of feet wearing bowling shoes next to a bright blue bowling ball.
Photo of water surface glimmering pink and purple.
Faint outline of a window with a curtain pulled back.
Photo of wind-sculpted sandstone.
Rock garden outside a pueblo entrance.
Night sky with the Milky Way.
Wind-sculpted sandstone.
Bird's-eye view of ocean shore, tan beach on the left, blue-green water on the right, breaking waves in center.
Photo by Malcolm Hill of a house with flames coming out of half its windows.
Quote in post superimposed over a photo of a wildland fire with smoke.
Cover of To Save the Man, a novel by John Sayles.
Text superimposed on a close-up photo of the American flag.