Spirits Walking

About the Book

In Spirits Walking, Lori Goff's short stories weave family relationships in a special blend of love, faith and the simple life dating back more than seventy-five years. The stories convey the hardships in a rural area, the life lessons learned, and the closeness people felt with nature in the hills and hollows of northeastern Kentucky. Goff shows the special relationship shared between grandmother and grandaughter, using dialect of the time and place. One will remember the wisdom of Starr and innocence of Maggie after reading their stories.

Starr finds acceptance of her friend's death in "it's her soul a-packin up and gettin ready to join her Maker" and "God wasn't ready to call you up" to explain the miracle of life; Maggie responds to Clay's gentle voice with "it's like the hills wrap around me." Both women find solace in their parting, knowing "we'll pass, you, me, through the seasons as we do every year."

About the Author

When Lori Goff was at the very early age of six months, her family moved from northeastern Kentucky to southeastern Michigan, where she now resides with her husband, Wesly. Spirits Walking, a collection of short stories anchored in Appalachia, is her third book. She is the author of The Heart of It All, 2006, a book of poetry and prose. Her work is featured in the anthology Freefalling-Writing without Limits, 2007, a how-to-write book. Her work has appeared in Woods-N-Water News, Farmington Gazette, and other journals. She is a graduate of Oakland Community College in Farmington Hills, Michigan and Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.