Introducing MK Gale

MK Gale's first book -- The Burning Barrel -- launched in February 2016.
This is Katie's story. She fell in love with a boy she had known all her life. In one moment her entire life changes. She held that love in her heart her whole life, squeezing out any love that might grow for her husband. Pregnant, her parents deal with it -- but she pays the price.
And when her body convulses with pain, blood saturating the sheets, she becomes a woman.
MK Gale explores the circle of aging -- vivid young memories crowding the present. She also plays with the idea of memory and the power of one life-changing experience to colour the future.
Available on Amazon.

The Burning Barrel

Meet MK Gale...
She self-published her first book today, just 5 minutes ago.
Title: The Burning Barrel
The book will be available in 72 hours. You can purchase it for $3.79US.... it is a huge step for me. I am out there.  The book that has been stagnating on my hard drive for more than 15 years is not readable in e-format.
Katie grew up on a farm in southern Manitoba. Naive and foolishly innocent she follows instinct on a cold night with a boy she loves. They are children. And then they are parents.
He leaves without knowing that he is a father.
She has nowhere to go. Nor does she have the imagination to leave. She doesn't know what is happening. The church judges. And she is taken from her home into the home of a man she hardly knows.
The book begins in the nursing home... where long hallways of tawny oak railing line shiny linoleum floors. Where women slump in a wheelchair, exhausted by life. Her memory is confused. As she ages, she remembers and forgets.
For her entire life she held the memory of that frozen moment keeping the man she married at an arms length with her frigid obedience. The child she made in love burned in the rusted barrel in the backyard. The ten children she birthed fought her pious perfection and her stilted spirituality. They prefered their father's irreverent laughter.
The story unravels -- coming of age and aging. Loving and losing. Living and hanging on to vapid memories.
Read it....
It's in the Kindle e-book library.