Christine Benedict
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Christine studied creative writing at Baldwin Wallace University and Cleveland State University. She has had the privilege of working with authors Karen Joy Fowler, Paula McLain, and Sarah Willis.
Her short stories have been finalists for Perigee Publication for the Arts and The Fish Short Story Prize.
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Anonymous
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Mystery/thriller
Debra Hamilton’s husband moves her into a hundred-year-old farmhouse on fifty-three acres of blacklisted real estate property. Floorboards creak when she’s all alone - her husband says it’s the wind outside. Objects appear and disappear - her husband says it’s her forgetfulness. Having to live here she is daunted by her genetic link to mental illness. Julie, a neighbor who befriends her, faces the fear of a stalker when perverted anonymous letters arrive in the mail that cause a rift in Julie’s unstable marriage. Their plots merge as their friendship grows to create a rich and satisfying mystery thriller. Excerpt: “Debra’s hands were small, delicate, the kind of hands that could fit inside a mayonnaise jar. She had bitten her fingernails down to the quick; so she had picked at her cuticles and had bitten them, too, tearing fine strips of skin. She wanted so badly to stop. It was ugly. It hurt. But she would bite them any way.” Note from the author: “Growing up with a mentally ill mother, I identify with Debra. Having a stalker who sent me these anonymous letters, I identify with Julie. The man who stalked me remains anonymous.” 
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