Echoes From the Hocker House

Selected as a BEST INDIE BOOK OF 2023 by KIRKUS

“Entrancing, edgy, and melodramatic tales with a palpable bite…Watts writes with a profound, confident voice.KIRKUS REVIEWS

2024 FEATHERED QUILL BOOK AWARD WINNER (BRONZE)

Devil’s Party proudly presents ECHOES FROM THE HOCKER HOUSE, a collection of short stories by multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee Virginia Watts. Featuring 15 powerfully imaginative tales, Watts is frequently praised for her strong dialogue and fully realized characters.

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Aerial View
Short Story published by Streetlight Magazine

2021 Pushcart Prize Nominee Fiction

Hannah Fisher keeps the curtains closed in every room of the farmhouse night and day. Windowsills are stuffed with juice glasses brimming seasonal wildflowers: delicate, snow-white Queen Anne’s Lace, purple chicory, periwinkle cornflowers. She’s been working miracles with her monthly budget too, squeezing out extra cash for her husband Rex’s cases of Miller High Life and ingredients to prepare elaborate, formal dinners on the weekends, recipes she downloads on her laptop. If there’s any spare change after all of that, she drives fifty minutes to the Wal-Mart in Scutters Mill and returns home with cases of French vanilla or lavender-scented candles…

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Roadways
Nonfiction published by Craft

2020 Best of the Net Nonfiction 2021 Pushcart Prize Nominee Nonfiction

Along Route 322, an often-traveled roadway of my childhood, past the turnoffs for Annville, Cleona, and Quentin, a thing of exquisite and recurring beauty—an automobile salvage yard that everyone simply called “the junkyard.” Cars dumped and clumped, leaning affectionately into each other. A handsewn quilt of many colors rolling up and over the gentle hills so common in Central Pennsylvania.

VW bugs of all hues, the baby blues and reds standing out among the rest. A yellow school bus once. Tractors weak and boney without their massive, earth spitting tires…

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Virginia Watts

Virginia Watts is the author of poetry and stories found in Epiphany, CRAFT, The Florida Review, Reed Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Words & Whispers, Sky Island Journal among others. She has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize and four times for Best of the Net. Her work in five anthologies and a debut short story collection Echoes from The Hocker House can be found at https://www.amazon.com/author/virginiawattswrites

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