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Telling Stories

Geoffrey Gevalt

I tell stories. I help you tell stories by sharing what I've learned in 50 years as a writer, editor, coach and novelist. For free.

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Sylvia

(Note: This story was presented on stage by Vermont Stage Company, in shows at The Black Box Theater, Dec. 10-14, 2025. It also was given a Top in Fiction award for month of December.)

December 21, 1981

All her life Sylvia Everett Brown h...

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I love my work -- Nick Cowles

I first met Nick Cowles in 1998, my first year in Vermont, when my family went to his orchard in Shelburne. The best way to describe Nick is to say he’s a “character,” and he’s a man who’s a gnat’s thigh from bursting out laughing. Always....

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A forgotten photo yields a family story

Aboard a Boston Pilot’s Association Schooner, Family Day, 1900. Author’s great-grandmother far left, hand on hip; great-grandfather left-center with black cap; grandfather directly behind with cap.

I found this photo in a hand-carved gold...

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Wild Life

The drive back from the hike showed us the rain was coming back soon. At home, we retreated to the porch to sit, sip, take in the night. Suddenly:

Our first thought: The fledgling which we had seen, under the watchful eyes of its barred ow...

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Fred – June 6, 1944

My Dad is on the far right looking towards the camera which was his and he’d tossed it into someone in the boat.

It seemed an impossible coincidence. Ghostly even.

It was Sunday, June 5, 1994. I was sick and had been banished to the attic...

a year ago
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