A TRANSCENDENT Excerpt: “These Walls Speak” by Andrea L. Staum

I never know what I’m going to see when I touch an object. I never know what I’m going to sense. Since I started work with the Clark Agency, I controlled more of what I saw—thanks to my boss’s vigilance. Still, what I stepped into when my palm touched the wall was nothing I could…

Coping with Writing by Andrea Staum

My grandma was diagnosed with dementia almost ten years ago. Compared to many her form of dementia was not extreme. She had lost her short term memory, but events from the past were clear to her. This meant that a trip to a museum could trigger a memory from her childhood where she could recite…

Our TRANSCENDENT Authors: a Featured Interview with Andrea Staum

In our new author series, we’ll be offering a clairvoyant peek behind the veil of who and what makes up TRANSCENDENT. Here’s a glimpse at Andrea Staum and her story “These Walls Speak.”   ABOUT THE STORY What inspired your story? Visits to my grandma’s house after her diagnosis with dementia were hard to process…