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Carnival Stories

by Victoria Hobbs Olsen

              Carnival Stories begins with the recounting of Victoria's onset of multiple sclerosis in 1986. Her story is based on her real-life experience; however, she has changed the names of people and locations.

              In Carnival Stories, we meet Victoria's character, Julia, at three different stages in her life, stages all connected by the fact that she was at a point of transition, building a new life for herself out of the ashes of the past. The thread tying these points together is her encounter with one remarkable man when she was a young, newly single mother. The lessons she learns over the course of her short contact with the mysterious Jonathan becomes more valuable over the years, as her life progresses. And it is not until twenty years later that she is fully able to understand the implications.

Victoria is a contributing author in GCWA's 2008 anthology

Teacakes and Afternoon Tales.

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About the Author

 

     Victoria Hobbs Olsen is the past GCWA President and former editor of the Magnolia Quarterly, a publication for creative writers. Utilizing her master's degree in Consulting Psychology from Harvard University, she has held many workshops over the past twelve years, most recently facilitating a fundraising event for the Gulf Coast Writers Association called The Tapestry of Psychological Type, Temperament and the Creative Process, held at a local community college.

      Victoria came to Pass Christian, Mississippi from Long Island, New York, in the fall of 1994. She was completing a novel, Carnival Stories, based on her short stay in Mississippi back in 1976. She fell in love with the area and the ambiance, and decided to move her family to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

      Hurricane Katrina blew Victoria to her current home in Durham, NC.

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