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  Trina Allen

  I write literature for adults and young people. A former middle school science teacher, I recently turned to fiction, and and have written short stories for adults and my first novel for young adult readers.

• "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." ~ Carl Sagan

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