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- [When The Future Is Now](https://janetclarewriter.com/when-the-future-is-now/) - First published on Oldster Magazine I didn’t grow up with my cousin. He, along with his two older siblings, were raised on the east coast, while I, though born in New York, grew up in Los Angeles, where I still live. I sometimes referred to them as my overachieving east coast cousins. A bit sarcastic
- [Carol and Brute](https://janetclarewriter.com/carol-and-brute/) - Carol put in her application to adopt Brute. “Really?” the attendant said. “We thought he might be too much dog for you.” “In what way?” “He’s very strong, you know.” “That’s okay. I could use some strength around here.” The attendant, a young woman with hair twisted up in a messy mop, gave her a
- [A Time Not Now](https://janetclarewriter.com/a-time-not-now/) - A month ago, I was in Los Angeles and my husband was in New York on his way home from Madrid and Paris. He’s a writer, fancied himself a poet, though he’d been working on a film. Or so he said. It wasn’t long before I discovered he hadn’t been traveling alone. His companion was
- [Notes on Not a Memoir](https://janetclarewriter.com/notes-on-not-a-memoir/) - The black hearse crossed in front of our car on the way to my first chemo appointment. “Think it’s a bad omen?” I asked my husband, “like a black cat?” That was nineteen years ago so it wasn’t a portend of things to come. I was, and remain, one of the lucky ones. And, don’t
- [With Mom](https://janetclarewriter.com/with-mom/) - One of my earliest memories of shopping is going up the escalator of a local department store with my mother gently poking me in the back to make me stand up straight. I’m not sure how old I was, maybe ten or eleven, old enough to be embarrassed and none too happy about it. My
- [More to Come](https://janetclarewriter.com/more-to-come/) - Turn yourself inside out. Pretend your heart, your lungs, your brain, every slimy organ that holds you together, that makes you who you are, is on the outside of your body. On the inside are your skin and hair, the color of your eyes, your clothes, and certainly those pricey kicks on your feet. So,
- [Phantom Child](https://janetclarewriter.com/phantom-child/) - You know your life has changed forever the first time he climbs out of the crib and scares the shit out of you by turning up in the kitchen. And, later, when he’s learned to drive and shows up unexpectedly, and you think, wait, how did you get here? Then, later still, when he's taller
- [This Might Be True](https://janetclarewriter.com/this-might-be-true/) - When Carol’s son grew up and went away to college and later married and had children and they, her grandchildren, grew up and went away too, Carol found herself spending time thinking about being old. She briefly succumbed to trying new potions and creams and even dipped into the dermatological world of the quick fix—line
- [Old Friend](https://janetclarewriter.com/short-fiction-old-friend/) - The man isn’t dead as I’d thought, but the woman, the wife is. He’s in trouble though, besides a dead wife there’s something about a terrible injury he’s had, a foot. He’s younger than the last time I saw him and I’m not sure how that’s possible, but it’s the foot that’s the problem now.
- [Flight](https://janetclarewriter.com/flight/) - Carol brought the baby home and put him in the bassinet, then sat on the edge of the bed staring at him. He slept peacefully while she toyed with a loose thread on the floral quilt. She was young, but not foolish, and she, along with her husband, Dan, both wanted this baby. But what struck
- [In Africa](https://janetclarewriter.com/in-africa/) - I went to Africa alone. No companion, no tour, just an American woman of a certain age on her own. I had read Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham in high school and, like so many others, I wanted to be Jane Goodall; I was completely enthralled with the idea of this mysterious continent and the
- [On The Power of Never Giving Up](https://janetclarewriter.com/lit-hub-essay-the-power-of-never-giving-up/) - Essay first published at LitHub "It's Never Too Late to Start (or Finally Finish) Your Novel" The passage of time is relentless. We all know it. Whether you’re having fun or not. Whether the years are filled with sublime happiness or utter sadness, or, like most of us, with a combination of both. It just

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- [Home](https://janetclarewriter.com/) - True Home Good people floating in a morass of bad decisions. True Home Swanee Burrows, the restless, edgy fifteen-year-old daughter of a scandal-ridden congressman and a beautifully flawed mother, has a penchant for running away: from her boarding school, her parents, her sometime-boyfriend, and herself. A coming of age of both adults and adolescents, True
- [Other Writing](https://janetclarewriter.com/other-writing/)
- [Books](https://janetclarewriter.com/books/) - Books by Janet Clare True Home The idea of home can be ambiguous: teenagers thinking of escape, adults who long to cling to it. Is it the house, however grand or modest, or the people within and without, that make it True Home? Colin McGill, a sportswriter, is happily married with three children. When an
- [Reviews & Interviews](https://janetclarewriter.com/reviews-interviews-time-is-the-longest-distance/) - Wild Precious Life Podcast Author, educator, and learner Annamarie Kelly talks with Janet about writing True Home, coming-of-age stories, author blurbs, and how writing can be a powerful antidote in the face of grief and loss. Listen to Podcast Interview: Nail Your Novel with Roz Morris "When I stopped working at the business I’d founded,
- [About](https://janetclarewriter.com/about/) - Before my first novel Time Is the Longest Distance was published, writer and literary critic, John Freeman, suggested I write an essay about publishing a book as an “older” writer. Beyond my desire to not be categorized—not by age, and/or gender, and/or race, and/or anything at all other than a still-breathing writer—I wrote an essay
- [A Time Not Now](https://janetclarewriter.com/a-time-not-now/) - A month ago, I was in Los Angeles and my husband was in New York on his way home from Madrid and Paris. He’s a writer, fancied himself poet, though he’d been working on a film. Or so he said. It wasn’t long before I discovered he hadn’t been traveling alone. His companion was a
- [Contact](https://janetclarewriter.com/contact/) - I look forward to hearing from you! Janet@janetclarewriter.com​ Send Me a Message First Name Email Last Name Message Send MessageThe form has been submitted successfully!There has been some error while submitting the form. Please verify all form fields again. Follow Me​
- [Excerpt: True Home](https://janetclarewriter.com/excerpt-true-home/) - Two weeks before, Christina had flown to Switzerland to see her daughter at boarding school. She was done with the not-so-honorable Congressman Marky Burrows who, in spite of his good looks and massive family inheritance, was destined to lose everything in a quagmire of scandals brought on by his own self-indulgent excess. The result of
- [J. McInerney Review](https://janetclarewriter.com/j-mcinerney-review/) - Review: Time is the Longest Distance Thursday, October 11, 2018 June J. McInerney, June's Literary Blog I am really jumping the gun here, folks, but I wanted to alert you to the release on December 11th of a really interesting, somewhat disturbing, but refreshingly original novel by an up-and-coming author, Janet Clare. is a complex psychological “thriller”.
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