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Collected Works, Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Sharon Patricia Burtner
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• Non-Fiction

  • Empowerment

    • Transforming Moments; The Miracle Workbook              

      
      

      

      
                By exploring the seen and unseen world, Transforming Moments; The Miracle Workbook encourages the reader to find the miraculous in everyday life. Sharon's personal vignettes offer a springboard for the reader's own reflections. Her adventures include being held at gunpoint as a stowaway on a train to East Berlin, almost being blown up by the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, and a fair share of ghosts and angels. Following each story, the reader is invited to participate in a suggested exercise and writing activity in this unique, intaeractive journal/narrative. Transforming Moments; The Miracle Workbook is designed to be marked up, doodled on, passed around and treasured.

      
      

      Interested in hosting a Transforming Moments party?

      All you need to do is order a book for each of your guests (or order one to share and read aloud).
      Share important experiences with those dear to you. Any questions? Click on the keyboard at the bottom of this page.
      

    
    

    

  • Fiction

    • Novellas

      • Suspect or Saint  
        

        
                  Suspect or Saint? is the story of an unlikely friendship between Nina, a troubled young woman, and Everest, the seminarian she sees for counseling. Through the course of their sessions, hints of a dark event in Everest’s past are revealed to Nina, while simultaneously Everest uncovers clues about a secret that Nina has hidden even from her conscious self. Through Nina’s exhibition of multiple personalities -- Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria -- light is shed on the past she has repressed. Suspect or Saint? is a psychological portrait of secrets, denial, dual lives, how the innocent become guilty and, when that happens, the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell one another. Moreover, Suspect or Saint? is a tale of the redemptive qualities of true friendship and its healing power to overcome even the most devastating trials.

        
        

        Witness Unalive              

        
        

        

        
        

        
                  A Writers Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition semi-finalist, Witness Unalive is a psychospiritual thriller about a kidney recipient who stalks a man he has never met. As an organ donor, Sharon hastens to emphasize that Witness Unalive is a totally fictional novella that deals with an ordinary couple facing an extraordinary predicament.

        
        

      

    • Poems

      • An Unaccepted Miracle    
        

        Apartment 303    
        

        April Twilight    
        

        At Home    
        

        Benediction    
        

        Boy at Bellevue    
        

        Clear Lake    
        

        Cocky Blue Cider Evening    
        

        Daughter, Dear Daughter   
        

        December Sparkle   
        

        Dirty Nickel   
        

        Disguises    
        

        Entity    
        

        For Your Birthday   
        

        The Honeymoon   
        

        In-Communication   
        

        Looking for God Inside a Man   
        

        Make Believe    
        

        Perception   
        

        Poe-pourri    
        

        Return to Birth    
        

        Second Impressions    
        

        Sixth and Market   
        

        Staccato   
        

        Sucker   
        

        Twelve   
        

        Verses   
        

        X and Why   
        

      

      
      
      
      

      

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