Candi Sary

Candi Sary is the author of the novel Magdalena, winner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award for Fiction, a Storytrade Award, and a PenCraft Award. Her novel Black Crow White Lie won a Reader Views Literary Award. Sary's essays have appeared in Lit Hub, Writers Digest, and Zibby Mag. She lives in Southern California with her husband, two dogs, and several ducks.

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My dad died a few months ago and yet I still hear him. I can’t listen to bands like the Doobie Brother’s without hearing his voice in the mix—even if he did make up his own words half the time. I still hear his signature catchphrases that always made my sisters and me laugh.
“He was a prince and a horse, but mostly horse,” he’d say to describe someone.