Moonbeams

About the Book

The moon in its many guises has for aeons fascinated storytellers. Moonbeams offers eleven richly imagined stories inspired by this age-old fascination...each one told on a moonlit night. "Eight Maids A-Milking" features a depression-era North Carolina family whose eight females - Mama, Millie, twins Matilda and Myrtle, Maude, Muriel, Maggie May, and Mirabelle - bring Daddy headaches, heartaches, and happiness. In "Music of the Spheres," a trip to the campground of her youth brings a lonely woman much more than memories. From the comedic to the surreal, in each of these tales the moon works its mysterious magic.

About the Author

Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Barbara Bergan grew up as an "army brat" traveling the world with her mother, sister, and career offi cer father before settling in Wilmington, Delaware, with her husband, Lee, and mothering twins. Now retired, their children grown, she and her husband reside in beautiful, balmy Southeastern North Carolina, where Barbara enjoys the simple pleasures of gardening, music, reading...and writing. Her prize-winning stories, some of which are included in Moonbeams, have appeared in the online literary journals Retrozine and Toasted Cheese and in Delaware Beach Life magazine. Her fi rst novel is to be published in late-2010.