William McEachern

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“Chinese Proverb” by William McEachern

Submitted to Contest #54

That’s the thing with Chinese Proverbs. There either inscrutable or so dead on that it is uncanny. Take for instance, this one: Wise men fish in the same stream. Seems like good advice, doesn’t it? But it is contradicted by this one: Fools fish in the same bucket. There is one that for me was dead on. But I didn’t know it then: Be careful for what you pray, you just might get it. I had been dating Sam for over a year. Samantha was doubly Sam. First, it was her name shortened. Second, and I liked...

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I am a recovering tax attorney. I am now a novelist writing historical fiction. My goal is to write as historically accurate a tale as is possible, while inserting my characters into the time, place, and culture of my subject era. I have published five novels to date, two of which were finalists for Historical Fiction of the Year.