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Update
This has been an exciting month with five more of my pieces accepted for publication. “The Taking Tree” in an anthology entitled ‘It Was a Mistake’ by Free Spirit, out in print very soon. “The Shoe” expected online in Issue #10 of Griffel this month. “First Interview” to be published by Unleash Press in their…
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Publications
For readers interested in my published works, I have included a list in the “About” section. If available on the internet, I provide the link. Otherwise the work is in print form in the literary journals and anthologies given. I have finished my manuscript of my memoir, Here, Where Death Delights (although is it ever…
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Memoir
I have been working hard on my manuscript. It contains 44 chapters, 15 of which are published in literary magazines. The search is on for an agent to represent me! I am also proud to announce that one of my stories, “Stairwell” published this summer by Jellybucket (Bluegrass Writer’s Studio of Eastern Kentucky University) has…
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Publications
I’ve had a busy and rewarding summer with many of my essays selected for publication. “Pandemic, the Game” discusses the popular board game created by Matt Leacock, and its lessons for our current world. It appears in The Closed Eye Open, Aldous Huxley themed issue, August, 2021. https://theclosedeyeopen.com/ripples-on-the-pond-ed-2/ “Stairwell” is a story of a woman’s…
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Award
I’m excited to share my latest recognition for one of my pieces “Watching Her”. Women on writing chose it as the first place winner in their 2021 Q2 contest. Here’s the link- https://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/99-FE1-Q22021EssayContest.html
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Storage Locker
“I don’t know why I made the payments on that stupid storage locker,” the woman said, her frosted lips pouting. The interview had drawn to an end. The FBI agent closed the folder in front of him, standing up to see her out. “Even before I paid the gas and electric. It was that important…
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When He Snapped
Afterward, no one could explain why he had done it. It happened while Ashley was watching television, an after-school cartoon, Rugrats, maybe, or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, sitting cross-legged on the carpet, her face inches from the screen. Her mother would have scolded her for ruining her eyes or absorbing harmful radiation or not doing…
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Rain
“What’s going on?” I asked. There was an angry edge to my voice as I watched the bodies being laid on the floor — two hundred and twenty eight of them. “I don’t know, Doc,” answered Kaholo, my pathology assistant, as he put on a butcher’s apron. His torso was thick and so were his…
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Hector
The Orange Crush. It sounds like an athletic team or a sparkling refreshment. Certainly not an elite division of prison guards. Not the name of an organized effort to control the incarcerated. Yet, that is what has been identified in a class action suit filed by inmates against the Illinois Department of Corrections. In an…
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La Petite Morte
Evelyn had arrived early for the meeting. The curtains were closed on the first floor windows of the motel room. It didn’t matter. The only view was an empty parking lot, on this weekday at lunchtime. A Reader’s Digest lay abandoned on an end table next to a plastic cup of water. Rumpled linens covered…
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