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November, 8, 2007 in the Evergreen Newspapers - The High Timber Times In her first novel, Conifer author loves to horrify
By Pamela Lawson
Kimberly Bridges was an IT specialist working at a hospital when she and a co-worker let their imaginations run wild one night. The pair ran data reports, and they were aware of the information that hospitals keep on patients, including the wealthy ones. What if patients were being killed for their money? What if the grave illnesses they are diagnosed with were a lie? Intensifying matters was the location of their workstation, in the basement, next to the morgue. On work breaks it wasn’t unusual to walk out into the hallway and see a dead body on a gurney — toe tag and all. A smile creeps across her face as she produces a copy of her first novel — a paperback of the fiction/horror genre called “Death Equity.” “When my brother heard the title, he said, ‘Oh, that is so morbid,’ but that’s the point,” said Bridges, who lives in Conifer. She wrote much of the novel on her laptop in a booth at the Old Pueblo Café in a small town in Arizona during the fall of 2006. While in Arizona she worked for a television news station as a technical engineer — The first death in her book involves a reporter at a news station. “I can’t tell you a lie. If you look me in the face you would say, ‘Yeah, whatever,’ ” she said. “But in fiction you are making up the most absurd things.” Absurd things with “realistic” details to make it believable, technically you are lying when writing fiction Bridges added. Bridges has loved to write since she was young. By age 10 she was reading a book a night at home in Missoula, Mont. But she ended up pursuing information technologies as a profession because of the pay. Bridges, who is 33, describes herself as a “life-long” student and has earned master’s degrees in business administration and technology management. She is currently completing a master’s in applied communications with the University of Denver, she further said. “I have piles of writing from when I was kid,” Bridges said. “Instead of recognizing my true passion, I went to school and just kept writing papers toward degrees that really didn’t get me anywhere.” Bridges was born in Texas, the youngest of four children, all of whom boys but her. And she is a twin who grew up a determined, hyperactive woman. Lately, she has enjoyed seeing the surprised expressions on the faces of friends who didn’t believe she would write a book. Publish America published her manuscript. Bridges has yet to find another café quite like the Old Pueblo, where she could squeeze into a booth in the early morning and furiously type away. Here she does the majority of her writing late at night — at the dining room table, kicked back on the couch or in a recliner. She is already writing her second book set in a small town, with “corruption” written all over it. “I can’t write romance,” Bridges said. “Everything turns into horror — I end up killing somebody every single time.”
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