by Melanie McGee Bianchi | Sep 15, 2024 | Timeline Stories
The year 1928 was momentous for Asheville and surrounding areas. Asheville High School was being built, Beaucatcher Tunnel was being blasted into the city’s downtown mountain, and an hour and more further west, the first phases of the Great Smoky Mountains National...
by Melanie McGee Bianchi | Jul 28, 2024 | Timeline Stories
“Fate Creek” is the third chapter in the novella-in-progress The Doll Sanatorium. In the summer of 1928, with a tunnel being blasted into Beaucatcher Mountain three blocks away and Asheville High School under construction just down the road, teenager Catesby Eleanor...
by Melanie McGee Bianchi | Nov 19, 2023 | Timeline Stories
Chapter II: The Dry Ridge Diviner According to Catesby’s mama, the Dry Ridge Diviner was a sorry old vamp. She was that, and she was other, less mentionable things. It was true the diviner wore so much face powder it was hard to tell her age, though she kept her head...
by Melanie McGee Bianchi | Aug 15, 2023 | Timeline Stories
The Doll Sanatorium was written as a stand-alone short story suitable for readers ages 12 to adult, but the author has intentionally ended the piece as a cliffhanger. She hopes one day to expand the narrative, even broaden it into a book, as she continues to explore...
