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Welcome to my website. I’m Gabi Coatsworth, writer, performer and blogger. On this site you’ll find access to my blog for Writers and my personal blog with stories from the home front.

I’m very proud to say that I’m one of nine women writers in this newly published anthology: Tangerine Tango: Women Writers Share Slices of Life. You’ll find items on love, children, transitions and the humorous side of life. Here’s an extract from one of my pieces:

I had lived with the cabinet for at least thirty-five years, but had seen it long before that. It used to stand meekly in my spinster great aunt’s house. I’m not sure what else she kept in there, but whenever my sisters and I went to her house for afternoon tea, she would open the cupboard door and extract a small tin of Harrogate toffee. Then she would present one of us with the small silver toffee hammer. The lucky girl would strike the toffee as hard as possible, and distribute the shattered remains to the rest. I could still recall the way that toffee stuck to the roof of my mouth.

When she died, some years later, she left me this little cabinet. I was sorely in need of furniture, since I had married young and had no money to spare for luxuries. Victorian furniture was in fashion then, and the neat lines of the cabinet appealed to me. I polished its rich mahogany with beeswax, and used it to store my collection of long-playing records, which fitted perfectly. A glass vase glinted on top of it. Later, it had been moved to the kitchen, and when I moved to America, the cabinet had come too. It had seen service in the dining room, where we rearranged the shelves to hold wine glasses and bottles. Later it migrated to the children’s room, where a collection of half-made model planes found their way into it, and untidy piles of school papers drifted across the top. Just before our most recent house move, I had found it in the basement, filled with old letters and photographs. I had moved the documents into a plastic bin.

To read the rest, you’ll have to buy the paperback book from Amazon, or wait for the eBook to come out. The paperback is only $8.95, and the profits are going to charity.

You can find some of my other published writing by clicking the links below

eChook Memoir Volume 1 app for Kindle, Nook, iPhone, iPad – you name it

Fairfield/Westport/Norwalk Patch (online newspapers)

Westport’s Hamlet Hub (online newspaper)

Mused – Bella Online Literary Review - Kitten Con Brio (fiction)

Good Men Project – Bipolar Planet

Connecticut Muse - Farewell, Finally (humor)