Upriver

smith mountain lake, having an abundance of fish, catfish especially, became his beloved playground.            

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Upriver

smith mountain lake is where i was conceived (true story!), and it has this hugely integral centrality to several periods of my life.

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The Boy Who Loved Her

One night a few weeks before the season began at smith mountain lake, about a year before that terrible tragedy that befell their friend, mike fischer, the lightfoots and the lynches had a late night supper, on their back patio at bernard's landing.

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The Dogs: Be Not Conformed To This World

." **23d april 1986, bernard's landing, smith mountain lake, virginia** _when these lips shall never more press a kiss upon thy brow but lie cold and still in death will you love me then as now?

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Moonlight Films

Nbsp; so roanoke, then, becomes a kind of crossroads - hence the name of the mall, really - and like all crossroads there is mystery, like all crossroads there are secrets...like botetourt, like smith mountain lake

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The Missing Guidebook

Botetourt, of them all, reigns dubiously supreme - like smith mountain lake with its phantom towns drowned in its waters and hideous catfish that wax enormous and intelligent upon its depths

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Ursa Minor

He'd learnt how to find all the stars when they'd go out to smith mountain lake together - he'd actually learnt how to read with him, and he remembered like it was only hours ago sitting on his lap, the rocking chair creaking in time beneath them:            

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Ursa Minor

He'd learnt how to find all the stars when they'd go out to smith mountain lake together - he'd actually learnt how to read with him, and he remembered like it was only hours ago sitting on his lap, the rocking chair creaking in time beneath them:

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How Shadows Taste

I started working on this just right about after i finished one of my favourite stories, upriver, and it's set in the same sort-of vicinity (hardy or wirtz, virginia, on route 122 going toward smith mountain lake), so about july 2015.

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