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Bedtime in Cleaning up Glitter
A Safe Word With Nona in Funny Pearls
Briefly, We Saw Each Other Retreat West
IN PRINT
MY STARBUCKS NAME
​My Starbucks Name was a delve into identity, that which we go by and the name others associate with us.
This story is a work of fiction loosely based on my own experience. The next time you hear your name called out by a barista at a crowded Starbucks, I hope you will think about your name, what it means to you, and this little story.
CAST IRON
Flash fiction is a unique form of literature that allows us to traverse portals and dimensions in mere thousand words or fewer. My story, Cast Iron, which I'm thrilled made the Bath Flash Fiction long list, is a close look at what binds us to our world, and the things to which we chain ourselves.
“The long list provided excellent examples of how stories can start and how they can grip a reader through conflict, through character, through precise and beautiful language.”
~Tommy Dean, writer, editor and teacher from the US.
A REAL SOLID GUY, WAS PAWPAW
This is a story about a growing new frontier, people caught between striking gold and appalling poverty, and of a child thrown into the jaws of adulthood.
JP Ralph, author and friend, generously called this story a heart-breaking western song. A story which began as a prompt exercise stayed close enough to my heart to submit to the amazing Ellipsis Zine, for their historical fiction issue. Ellipsis Zine is, alas, is no more. Their rich archives continue to thrive. In The Belly of the Whale is a whopper of an issue with stories that will stay with you long after you've finished reading them.
THE EMPRESS OF DEATH
Is horror the evil that visits us? Is it fear of the unknown?
Or do we fear to plumb the depths of our own minds?
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InThe Empress of Death, a maiden carrying a deadly curse is banished into the catacombs beneath a mountain, along with her thousand companions and while it is a tale of death, destruction, and the old gods, I found it was, above all, about empathy.
