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Story Collections & Anthologies
A Blue Moon & Other Murmurs of the Heart | October 2019 The Collection: Flash Fiction for Flash Memory | March 2018 Inside the Bell Jar's Mental Health Anthology - We Run Through the Dark Together | Dry Creek | March 2018 Where's My Tiara Anthology? | Type a Little Faster | Winter 2017 print available on Amazon.com. Crack the Spine 15th Anthology Issue | Every Star Has A Story | Spring 2017, print available on Amazon.com Short Fiction Cooper | Bethlehem Writers Workshop | Honorable Mention, Short Story Contest, January 2020. The Pill | Carolina Woman's Magazine, 5th place contest winner Tulip Tree | The Dead Mule School for Southern Literature, April 2018 | online Music As Her Refuge | The Dead Mule School for Southern Literature, July 2017 | online. Archangels | Easy Street, December 5, 2016, online I Bought Bernie's Sofa | The Mused Literary Review, Volume 10, Issue 3, Fall 2016, online A Blue Moon | Literary Orphans, Issue #27, November 2016, online Flash Fiction Chained and Locked | Dime Show Review, Vol 3, Issue 1, April 2019. online/print Bathroom Break | Brilliant Flash Fiction, 3rd place contest winner, online Much Better | Firewords Quarterly, Issue #6, print Micro-Fiction Might Get Lucky | 53-Word Story Contest Winner | Prime Magazine Issue 137, July 2018, online Santa | Writers Resist, Holiday Issue 2017, online Rhino Skin | A Quiet Courage, June 9, 2017, online High Tech | Fifty Word Stories, October 14, 2016, online Accident | Tiny Text, November 28, 2016, online Questions Alex Asked His Wife Before She Left | Intrinsick, June 2016, online The Playground | A3 Review, Issue 3, September 2015, 1st Place contest winner, print Creative Non-Fiction Through Someone's Head | Story News, June 18, 2019. online On Opening the Door | Readers' Notes, Ruminate, June 15, 2017. print Clearing Out Daddy's Basement | Tell Us A Story, Volume 4, Issue #1, July 14, 2016, online In The Company of Other Writers | North Carolina Literary Review, Number 25, 2016. print Poetry Life In & Out | Atlas Poetica A Journal of World Tanka | Winter 2018 The Dissection of My Mother's Miscarriage | Glass Mountain, Volume 20, Spring 2018, print She Wants | Blue Heron Review, Winter 2018 Nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Award. Inside My Closet | Poetry South, 2016 Issue, print Today is Our Jet Stream | Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine, November 8, 2016, online High Horse | ArtAscent, September 2016, pages 16 - 17. Gold Writer, print Contact
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"The waiting room looked much the way it did after the police dragged him out, pushing past the armed guard he’d hired. ...
"Carl paces on the edge of his property line like a dog restricted by an invisible fence. The tip of his cigarette glows. I take a last look at the rising moon shimmering against the darkening sky. The moon babbles louder and sharper tonight like the raucous gathering of birds before a bad storm." "Mama mutters something about Daddy believing combat could cool his wanderlust. Just got himself killed. Every conversation, no matter its beginning, always ends with his decision to join the Army". "Harriet would bet anything that it was from Mrs. Carter. Nearly eighty and dreadfully near-sighted, the woman gave her a flower vase as a birthday gift last year. When James returned from Friday night bowling, he asked why there was a bong with silk irises sitting on the mantle." |
