A Mutt and a marine
A Novel
"Meet Hatch, combat Marine injured in Vietnam. Now, twenty-seven years after the war, he faces a DUI and a serious alcohol addiction. His dog, a lovable, scruffy black mutt named Buddy, plays an integral role in his recovery. Also helping are a care taking older sister, a Marine brother, and a Puerto Rican lady running a diner in Seattle's Belltown. But what saves him is a talent waiting to be unleashed."
"First Morning"
Published in When Women Waken, Fear Issue, Fall 2015.
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"For Lilabet"
Published in Zest Literary Journal, October 2013.
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"Dancing on 74th Street"
Published in I Thought My Father Was God from NPR’s National Story Project, edited by Paul Auster, Henry Holt and Company, 2001. Also aired on Weekend All Things Considered, National Story Project, August 2000. Also published in When Women Waken, Our Stories, Too, 2016
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The Bear in the Outhouse |
Where I Work |
Sidewalks, Fall/Winter 1996-97, #11
Snow Monkey, 2001, Vol. 2, Issue #2 |
Mediphors, Spring/Summer 1997, #9
Intersections, Spring 2001, Vol. 7, # 1 Four Ties Lit Review, Volume 1, Fiction, Issue 5, August 2016 |
Backyards |
The Little Girl with Red Hair |
Spindrift, 1997. Jurors' Choice for best prose
The Higginsville Reader, Summer 1997, Vol. 7, #3. Nominated for The Pushcart Prize Mosaic, Autumn 1999, Vol.1, # 1 Carrying Fire, TL;DR Press, Women's Anthology, October 2018 |
Children, Churches & Daddies, September 1996
American Jones Building & Maintenance, Summer 1998, #2 |
Jackie Kennedy Legs |
From The Asylum |
North Atlantic Review, 1998, #10
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Synapse, 2000, #24
The Awakenings Review, Volume 2, #2, Summer, 2003 |
Days of Our LivesSynapse, 2000, #24
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Dancing on Seventy-Fourth Street I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales From NPR’s National Story Project, edited by Paul Auster, Henry Holt and Company, 2001
Aired on NPR, August 2000 Our Stories, Too, When Women Waken, February 2016 |
Street MadonnaRosebud, Issue 29, April 2004
The Anthology Project, University of Washington, Vol. 2, Issue 1, June 2007 |
Up RiverRosebud, Issue 30, August 2004
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Baby and HouseBryant Literary Review, Vol. 6, May 2005
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Picasso and ZitaRockhurst Review, Vol. 19, Spring 2006
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Jiffy LubePocket Change, August/Sept. 2008
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My FaceLamplight Tales, National Library of Canada, January 2011
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SwansIsland Mists, Anthology of Verse, National Library of Canada, January 2011
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Two HobosRiverLit Magazine, Issue #4, 2012
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Blue ApronThe Meadow, Spring 2012
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The House by the LakeRoar Magazine, 2012
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A Bicycle Built for TwoFriction, UK, June 2012
For LilabetZest Literary Journal, October 2013
Ronald's SisterCold Creek Review, Issue #1, March 2017
Nominated for the Best of the Net |
Walter and GabriellaLove Hurts Anthology, February 2013
First MorningWhen Women Waken, Fear Issue, Fall 2015
SistahsNorthwest Indiana Literary Review, July 28, 2018
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