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December 12, 2012

The Timber Creek Review
P.O. Box 16542
Greensboro, NC 27416

Dear Mr. Freiermuth:

Here’s a story for you: “Tana (Dreaming of You” (3,060 words). Set in Antananarivo, Madagascar (with which I am intimately familiar), this narrative tells the story of a moderately successful American musician who travels to Madagascar to make music with the locals and, in doing so, finds a bridge into the Malagasy culture. My friend called this a story of “little conflict but big heart,” and, with its optimistic tone and sense of leave-taking, I feel (hope) that it is a good fit for TCR.

I am a 35-year-old high school teacher living in Hyde Park, Chicago. I’ve written over one hundred stories and am currently working on my third novel. I’ve had stories published in The Timber Creek Review (2003), Spitball (2005, 2007), Zahir Tales (2004, 2008), The Sulfur River Literary Review (2006), Words of Wisdom (2004, 2006), Struggle (2004), The Deadline (2011) and The Skylark (2003, 2004, 2005). Recently, I took first prize in the 2009 Stark-Tinkham Writing Contest (Graduate Student Short Story Category) at Purdue University Calumet for the story “By the River’s Dark” and was concurrently published in their anthology of student writers.

Thank you (again) sincerely for reading and drop me a line – I’ll welcome any advice you can give me.

Best,
Daniel Brugioni

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