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You're not missing a story. You're just standing too close to see it.

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Welcome to Echo Canyon. A neighborhood where five women in their sixties and seventies are refusing to let their best years be behind them. Come pull up a chair. You've been expected.

Whispers of Echo Canyon - Book 1

My debut novel is finally here (and on sale)

For every woman who has spent a lifetime showing up for others and now wonders what comes next, Whispers of Echo Canyon - 2/17/26

Feb 8 • Marylee Pangman, Author

Meet the Women of the Canyon

Find yourself in one of these women.

Feb 2 • Marylee Pangman, Author

The Lost Whisper - Chapter 2

Her knees wobbled and she sat hard on the cabin floor. Dust rose around her and she didn’t care. The letter trembled in her hands or her hands trembled…

Oct 8, 2024 • Marylee Pangman, Author

The Road Home - Chapter 1

Chapter 1 - Raven considered arguing, then saw the truth in his eyes. She had carried miles in her bones and dust in her lungs.

Oct 1, 2024 • Marylee Pangman, Author

Prologue - The First Whisper

A Story Starts Before You Realize You Are Living It

Sep 24, 2024 • Marylee Pangman, Author

Short Stories of Fiction

Would the Gates Open?

This weekend’s short story from Echo Canyon

Aug 9 • Marylee Pangman, Author

The Secret Was Never the Food

Sometimes the best traditions are the ones no one remembers starting.

Aug 2 • Marylee Pangman, Author

When the Women of the Canyon visit with the author

An invitation to pull up a chair on the veranda

Jul 26 • Marylee Pangman, Author

The Chair No One Sat In

When she looked at the empty chair, her face did not change, but the room around her seemed to.

Jul 12 • Marylee Pangman, Author

Before We Call It Writing

Five women, one blank notebook, and the small things they once saved without knowing why.

Jul 5 • Marylee Pangman, Author

The Cost of Silence – A Story in Five Voices

A Weekend Story from Echo Canyon

Jun 28 • Marylee Pangman, Author

Better Dirt Than Dead

Sometimes the hardest part of letting go is facing the space it leaves behind.

Jun 21 • Marylee Pangman, Author

What Am I Waiting For?

The question arrived on an ordinary evening.

Jun 14 • Marylee Pangman, Author

Life's Threads

I Forgot About Those

The difference between losing something and just putting it down

Jul 7 • Marylee Pangman, Author

The Things We Learn to Wait For

Sometimes the kindest thing we can do for someone we love is let them speak in their own time.

May 19 • Marylee Pangman, Author

The Line That Stopped Me

A Life’s Thread from my experience in writing Whispers of Echo Canyon

Apr 28 • Marylee Pangman, Author

The Space Between ‘I’m Fine’ and the Truth

What Riley doesn’t ask, and why it matters more than the answer

Apr 14 • Marylee Pangman, Author

Doin’ It My Way

Discover the Story That's Already There

You're not missing a story. You're just standing too close to see it.

Aug 13 • Marylee Pangman, Author

You Don’t Have Too Many Ideas

You just haven’t found the thread yet.

Jul 14 • Marylee Pangman, Author

The Real Story Isn’t Necessarily the Chapter

Sometimes you don’t fully understand a character until she writes something she would never say out loud.

Jun 16 • Marylee Pangman, Author

Older Women Giving Younger Women Something Rare: Proof

I didn’t plan to publish my first novel at 73.

Jun 2 • Marylee Pangman, Author

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