Mystery Woman Blog: Stories, Mysteries, Life

Ready-to-read stories by Phyllis Gobbell under pseudonym P Gallaher.

Books

  • Prodigal (Histria, 2024)
  • Notorious in Nashville (Encircle, 2023)
  • An Unfinished Canvas (Reprint, Diversion, 2022)
  • Treachery in Tuscany (Encircle, 2017)
  • Secrets and Shamrocks (Five Star, 2016)
  • Pursuit in Provence (Five Star, 2015)
  • A Season of Darkness (Berkley, 2010)
  • An Unfinished Canvas (Berkley, 2007)

Short Stories

  • “Wilma” (WELL READ Magazine, 2024)
  • “The Major’s Wife” (Zone 3, 2012)
  • “Saturday Afternoon” (Tetrahedra, 2007)
  • “Primates” (Bellevue Literary Review, 2003)
  • “Tellico” (Zone 3, 2002)
  • “Crystal Ball” (Red Mud Review, 2002)

Essays and Creative Nonfiction

  • “Why We Love Amateur Sleuths” (Mystery and Suspense Magazine, 2024)
  • “What We Keep, What We Throw Away” (WELL READ Magazine, 2023)
  • “Have You Come to Take Me Home?” (TenX9, 2022)
  • “Grateful” (Coastal Shelf, 2021)
  • “On Father’s Day” (The Tennessean, 2019)
  • “What We Keep, What We Throw Away” (2 Bridges Review, 2016)
  • “Seeing Possibilities” (THINK: Resilience, 2013)
  • “Marie” (Bellevue Literary Review, 2002)

Op-Eds/Letters to the Editor

  • “WI Voters Should Take Elon Musk’s Money . . .” The Tennessean, April 1, 2025
  • “Are We the Good Guys?” Shield and Search, March 2025
  • “Exceptions for My State Only,” Shield and Search, March 2025
  • “How Much Is Enough?” Shield and Search, March 2025
  • “It’s Not Overreacting to Sound the Alarm,” Shield and Search, March 2025
  • “Ukraine Started the War? Really?” Shield and Search, March 2025
  • “Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Needs to Take Measles More Seriously,” The Tennessean, March 5, 2025
  • “Oligarchs In Charge,” The Observer, March 2025
  • “Judgment at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” Shield and Search, February 2025
  • “Oligarchs In Charge,” Shield and Search, February 2025
  • “When It Hits Where It Hurts,” Shield and Search, February 2025
  • “The New Oligarchs,” Shield and Search, February 2025
  • “Is There a Line?” Shield and Search, February 2025
  • “Republican Senators Do Not Resemble Profiles in Courage,” The Tennessean, February 2, 2025
  • “A Good Life,” Shield and Search, January 2025
  • “No Accountability,” and response to readers’ email, Shield and Search, January 2025
  • “Trump Is a Convicted Felon, But He Got Off Scot-Free,” The Tennessean, January 11, 2025
  • “Trump Is Not Hitler, But We Must Pay Attention . . .” Shield and Search, December 2024
  • “President Biden Was Right to Pardon Hunter, Shield and Search, December 2024
  • “Biden Was Right To Pardon His Son Hunter,” The Tennessean, December 2, 2024
  • “Church and State Entwined,” Shield & Search, November 2024
  • “Pre-gret,” Shield & Search, November 2024
  • “Trump is not Hitler, but We Must Pay Attention . . .”, The Tennessean, November 21, 2024
  • “Like Tennessee” Shield & Search, November 2024
  • “The Unthinkable Has Become Commonplace, The Observer, November 2024
  • “What’s It Worth?” Shield & Search, November 2024
  • “Sarah Huckabee Sanders Fails to Score,” Shield & Search, October 2024
  • “Names,” Shield & Search, October 2024
  • “GOP: What’s In a Name?” The Observer, October 2024
  • “Do You Truly Believe . . .” Shield & Search, October 2024
  • “The Unthinkable Has Become Commonplace,” Shield & Search, September 2024
  • “How Can Anyone Be Undecided at This Point?” The Tennessean, September 19, 2024
  • “Grand Old Party – or What’s In a Name?” Shield & Search, September 2024
  • “We Knew Trump Would Resort to Debasing Women,” The Tennessean, August 18, 2024
  • “GOP Needs to Get in Step With American Values,” Shield & Search, August 2024
  • “Trump Administration’s Legacy,” Shield & Search, August 2024
  • “Don’t Be Fooled,” Shield & Search, August 2024
  • “Modern Death Camps?” The Observer, August 2024
  • “GOP Needs to Get in Step With American Values,” The Tennessean, August 4, 2024
  • “Working People Are Smarter Than You Think” Washington Post, July 23, 2024
  • “Shooting Was Wrong, But Unlike Trump . . .” The Tennessean, July 15, 2024
  • “If The Delegates Are All In . . .” New York Times, July 12, 2024
  • “Debate Scorecard” Durant Democrat, July 2024
  • “The Way We Weren’t” Durant Democrat, June 21, 2024
  • “Yes, Trump Had More Energy, But . . .” The Tennessean, June 29, 2024
  • “Losers” Shield and Search, June 2024
  • “A Letter to Young Protesters” The Observer, June 2024
  • “Nikki Haley Loses Her Grit” The Tennessean, June 2, 2024
  • “The Way We Weren’t” The Observer, May 2024
  • “How Quickly They Forget” Shield and Search, April 2024
  • “When Nazis Came to My Town” The Observer, April 2024
  • “Trump Supporters Hope We Forget His Handling of COVID,” The Tennessean, March 24, 2024
  • “So You Think You Want a Dictator?” Durant Democrat, March 22, 2024
  • “The New Age of Hypocrisy,” The Observer, March 2024
  • “So You Think You Want a Dictator?” Shield and Search, March 2024
  • “The Party of Hypocrites” Shield and Search, February 2024
  • “Women Need to Know” Shield and Search, January 2024
  • “It’s Happening in Texas” The Tennessean, December 12, 2023
  • “Andy Ogles Does Not Speak for Soccer Moms,” The Tennessean, October 29,2023
  • “Check Your Ballot Closely,” The Tennessean, September 2023
  • “Is Crying ‘Fire!’ Free Speech?” The Tennessean, August 24, 2023
  • “The First America First” (Propwatch Project, 2023)
  • “A Woman’s Life Should Be a Fundamental Right, Too,” The Tennessean, September 11, 2022
  • “Tennessee Leaders’ Health Priorities Skewed,” The Tennessean, April 30, 2021

Poetry

  • “There Are Things You Cannot Take Back” (Tetrahedra, 2013)
  • “Texting” (Tetrahedra, 2012)
  • “Back from Afghanistan” (Tetrahedra, 2012)
  • “All I Know” (Tetrahedra, 2009)
  • “Baby Love” (Tetrahedra, 2009)
  • “Fallujah Villanelle” (Tetrahedra, 2008)
  • “Storyteller” (Tetrahedra, 2008)
  • “Seamstress” (Tetrahedra, 2007)
  • “Death Knocks in the Neighborhood” (Tetrahedra, 2006)
  • “Snakes” (Tetrahedra, 2005)
  • “Gentle” (Tetrahedra, 2004)
  • “Grief” (Tetrahedra, 2004)

Podcasts

  • “Interview” (Living the Next Chapter, 2024)
  • “Interview by Donnie Lansdale” (The Author’s Voice, 2023)
  • “Tellico” (Everyday Authors, 2022)
  • “What the Cat Knew” (Everyday Monsters, 2022)

Awards

  • Pushcart Nomination for “Wilma” by WELL READ Magazine, 2024
  • Notorious in Nashville, Top Picks, Silver Falchion Award for Cozy Mystery, 2024
  • Princess of Almost Alabama, Finalist, Claymore Award for Books in Progress, 2024
  • Treachery in Tuscany, Winner of Silver Falchion Award for Cozy Mystery, 2019
  • “Hungry,” Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Family Matters Contest, 2017
  • “A Family Meeting,” First Place, Leslie Garrett Fiction Prize, 2014
  • “A Fine Party,” Leslie Garrett Fiction Prize Second Place, 2013
  • “Playing by Ear,” Third Place, Knoxville Writers’ Guild Creative Non-Fiction Contest, 2013
  • “What We Keep, What We Throw Away,” Second Place, Knoxville Writers’ Guild Creative Non-Fiction Contest, 2011
  • “What We Keep, What We Throw Away,” Third Place, Writers’ Workshop of Asheville, NC, 2011
  • “The Major’s Wife,” Leslie Garrett Fiction Prize Third Place, 2010
  • “Stitches in Time,” Second Place, Knoxville Writers’ Guild Creative Non-Fiction Contest, 2010
  • “In the Car with Mother,” First Place, Knoxville Writers’ Guild Creative Non-Fiction Contest, 2008
  • Individual Artist Fellowship (Fiction), Tennessee Arts Commission, 2006
  • Ragdale Foundation Residency, 2006
  • Pushcart Nomination for “Primates” Bellevue Literary Review, 2005
  • “Tellico,” First Place, Leslie Garrett Fiction Prize, 2002
  • “Primates,” First Place, Short Story Contest, Tennessee Writers Alliance, 2002
  • “Marie” Creative Nonfiction Winner, Writers’ Workshop of Asheville, NC, 2001