Wagner's stories are succinct, well-crafted slices of some pretty quirky lives.
Bonnie Hearn
The Fresno Bee

Once in a great while a writer comes on the scene who has the unique ability to observe all that makes us human, and then give it back to us in haunting stories that once read, remain a part of us forever; Marilyn Schoefer Wagner is such a writer. Her debut collection of short stories is a smorgasbord of character studies, morality plays, and human insights.
Gary Frazier
Editor-in-Chief
Genesis Press, Inc.

I know I wrote before how much I liked your stories, but I just have to drop you another note. Pole Cats was great! The characters are so real. I think I've even met a couple of them.
Barbara Bendure
Rocky Hill, NJ

The characters in Pole Cats remind me so much of the geese I observe out of my kitchen window--the squawking that goes on when territory is being defended! The ending of the story was quite a twist which elicited a hearty chuckle. From now on I'll be tempted to read the end of her stories first.
Ruth Fiuczynski
Princeton, NJ

Marilyn Wagner, she does write; writes well with a good ear and eye. Her people are absolute originals - often oddballs and misfits, troubled souls. It's always a joy to get to know them.
Sylvia Julia Kozak-Budd
Librarian, Mendocino County Library
Artistic Director, Mendocino Theatre Company

Over the past years it's been my delight to publish a number of Marilyn Wagner's provocative pieces of short fiction and, as do all editors, I relished the thrill of having "discovered" an exciting new talent. The first piece we offered dealt with a fellow who served croquettes made of the meat of cats to cat fanciers, which was not what I'd expected from the sophisticated woman who'd told me, shyly, that she was a writer. And what a writer she turned out to be!
Lee Nichols
Editor Emeritus, OutLook Magazine