Bending Genres published by personal essay “Overdue Elegy.” Thank you, editors! You wouldn’t know how often I think of you. We didn’t see each other during the last years of your life. Not because of differences or hard feelings: Our…

Thanks to Jen Michalski and the other editors of the wonderful JMWW, I have a new story published online! Unlike most mothers who lived to nourish their kids (it seemed), my mother never enjoyed feeding me. Cooking, like eating, was a…

I’ve been very fortunate this year in finding great homes for my stories and in receiving nominations. 🌹 Thank you Sally Reno and Doug Mathewson from Blink Ink for nominating “Tabula Rasa” for a Pushcart Prize, the Best Small Fictions,…

Stories printed and stories online: I’m very grateful to the editors of Fiction International, Elm Leaves Journal, The Sunlight Press, Flash Boulevard, and Spelk for publishing my work this season. The following stories are available to read online: “Flynn, Fate, and The…

As I’m working hard on two new novels, one for younger readers and one for adults, I sometimes gratify myself by writing flash fiction. It’s such a joy and a great practice and a fabulous genre all by itself. I’m…

Two new stories of mine were published this week! “Inner Thief” appeared in FlashBack Fiction:   Her husband folds his hand over hers, the one wielding the knife, and she stops slicing the breakfast bread. He says they have enough.…