Description: "Eulogies and Dead Horses" is a collection of a geologist's traveling adventures. The stories are about people or animals in some stressful, often mortal, situation and the subsequent resolution. These situations demonstrate a larger plan on a path leading through a mire of challenges. That said, these stories are about the beauty of life.
Brief description: Michele Murray lives in South Park in Central Colorado. She is a professional geologist (sometimes reflected in her stories) and freelance writer. Her articles on outdoor living have been published in Mountain Gazette (she has been a contributing editor for 12 years), as well as in Discover the Outdoors, EQUUS, Fly Fishing World, Native People's Magazine, New Tribal Dawn, The Aquarian, International Double Reed Society, and other literary journals. She also writes fly fishing stories for http: //www.coloradofishing.net/ and www.wyomingfishing.net. Michele's stories are included three anthologies: "Colorado Mountain Dogs," published by WestWinds Press - The Pruett Series, an imprint of Graphic Arts Books, 2014. "Comeback Wolves: Western Writers Speak for Wolves in the Southern Rockies," published by Johnson Books, 2005. "Hell's Half Mile: River Runners' Tales of Hilarity and Misadventure," published by Breakaway Books, 2004. Michele is an enrolled member in the Pembina Clan of Ojibwe of the Turtle Mountain Agency in North Dakota -- home of her father. She is also part Scottish. She draws on both sides of her ancestral heritage to write compassionate, technically correct stories that relate to these two ancient histories.
Review Quotes: If you liked Edward Abbey's, "Desert Solitaire," Gretel Ehrlich's, "The Solice of Open Spaces," and James Galvin's, "The Meadow," you will love Michele Murray's, "Eulogies and Dead Horses." - Alan Stark, columnist, mountaingazette.com Michele Murray weaves the chaos of the human mind and experience into a sweet and masterful flow. Her artistry and rare gifts of observation put her in the realm of Renaissance Woman. This collection of essays is at times startling in its beauty. -- Tara Flanagan, writer for, Mountain Gazette; former managing editor of, Vail Trail.