short stories
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Evening Street Review #35, Autumn 2022 includes my newest story, Streets of Sorrow.
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The night my parents reported me missing, the police came over and searched the house. Missing kids can turn up in closets where they’ve dozed off playing hide-and-seek.
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Visit my Story Archive for pieces from my past.
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The Streets of Sorrow, a short story inspired by true events, will appear in print in the coming weeks.
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My newest story, Of Course I Didn’t, has been accepted for publication this fall in the online literary magazine, Rock Salt Journal.
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Just 101 words long, this piece takes less than a minute to read. Micro fiction challenges prose writers to be as succinct as poets, who craft full narratives with powerful precise language.
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Meg looked up from her keyboard when the outer door opened and a smart young woman entered.
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I close all the windows. The wind is picking up & the dust will blow in. In the streaming sunshine, a man walks alone on the dirt road.
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Before the wildfire some years back, Grandpa George’s summer place was an ageing cabin, a relic from a time when the mountain resort was a novelty to city dwellers, a picturesque place to get away an hour’s drive from downtown.