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Books by Gertrude Reichsmeid

Gertrude Reichsmeid Gertrude Reichsmeid has worked as a bartender and an assembly-line worker. She grew up in the Midwest, went to school in Wyoming, lived in New York and rural Oregon. Now she's back home in the Midwest, living in Racine, Wisconsin.

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Dreamstate Dreamstate by Gertrude Reichsmeid
Author Gertrude Reichsmeid delivers fourteen stories that form her most complex work. Combining the concepts of magical realism with the fluidity and depravity of dreams, she takes us through a series of interconnected alternate realities that seem very much like our own, but...not quite.
Available fall 2007

Maximum Slate Maximum Slate by Gertrude Reichsmeid
When a glowing orb is discovered in a small park in downtown Chicago, six men and women find themselves on a religious pilgrimage, a quest to seek Satan — living on Earth in a human guise — and destroy him on behalf of God. Packing complex characters and a variety of subplots into her second novel, Gertrude Reichsmeid weaves a rich tapestry of political and religious satire combined with a sharp eye for slapstick.

Mirror of Pain Mirror of Pain by Gertrude Reichsmeid
The matriarch of a corrupt London family begins to see a distorted, vile reflection in the mirror. Rather than acknowledge this as a symbol of her own flaws and try to change, Sarah tries to ignore it, but when the mirror image begins to speak, she can no longer ignore it...
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