Stories and Stuff
The stories are obvious. The stuff is the rest of the random madness.
Short Stories
So I'm one of those deluded individuals charitably referred to as "aspiring writers". What exactly we aspire to is not immediately clear, but if internet websites are anything to go by, there are way too many of us these days. This is not very good, but unfortunately none of us can help it. It just happens. You can click on the X in the top right corner now--
--Or you can read my short story
"The Package", published in the 2006 summer edition of the online magazine New Works Review. I'm not quite sure what the story means, but it was my very first to be published anywhere, or to be shared with anyone, for that matter, so it must mean something.
Dana's Babies, a flash fiction piece--meaning it's really short, folks--is currently in Shine...The Journal, a monthly e-zine of flash, poetry, art and photography.
"Snow or Shine" was written for a Writer's Beat contest, and happened to win. (Contest results, with a slight misspelling I was clearly asking for.) There are pretty pictures on the page too, though you should be warned that the word "Christmas" does appear repeatedly. The story is also published in the site's January newsletter, "The Writer's Club", though it's actually harder to read it there (and my name now shares its misspelled fate with the title). Other stories posted on the same site are "Around the Campfire, or the Docent's Tale", and "Of Frogs and Todies"
"Keeping Up with the Kerrigans" was written for The First Line, but they didn't want it. So it no longer has their first line... And I haven't figured out what else to do with it, so here it is for now.
Antonio's Madness was my first attempt at a "love story", written for a gather.com contest for such unlikely items. Now just because they didn't like it doesn't mean you wouldn't....
There are a couple of other short fiction pieces, as well as non-fiction articles, on my Gather page. (The most recent items fall in the category of fake news, and are posted to a fun group there called Gather Non-News By Non-Correspondents).
Longer pieces are navigating the Sea of Really Bad Odds out there. I hope to put some of them here later, either because they have been published, or because I have finally given up on them. Whichever comes first....
