Stories from Life

fiction, poetry, theatre, flash, observations

Published Works

Walking Home in Short StoriEs (ISBN 0-9544846-8-1). A collection of 15 works of fiction by authors from around the world.

http://www.gattopublishing.com/shortstories.htm




In the Glow of the Bathroom Light, the July/August edition of SaucyVox Review, featuring Scott Holstad and Donna Gagnon. 63 pages, perfect bound, full color cover. ISSN 1715-4499

http://www.lulu.com/content/160378

 

SaucyVox Review Nov/Dec 05 issue featured five poems – Opening, Hunger, Sunday Evening, A Set of Instructions for Making Something, Casanova’s Women

http://saucyvox.com/saucepoetry/

 

Hunger listed as a poetry pick for the week of December 12, 2005

http://www.goodreports.net/anthology/anthology2.htm

 

Days of Bargaining, SmokeLong Annual 2004-2005 (originally appeared in Issue 8 of SmokeLong Quarterly).

http://www.smokelong.com/flash/1936.asp

http://www.cafepress.com/smokelong.28171895

 

Gold Dust Magazine, Issue 4 featured Speculation (flash fiction)

http://www.lulu.com/golddustmagazine

 

The Ghost of Paulette Goddard, Smokebox, Issue #39, October 2005

http://www.smokebox.net/archives/fiction/gagnon1005.html

 

Divina, Smokebox, Issue #40, December 2005

http://www.smokebox.net/archives/fiction/gagnon1205.html

 

A Trick of the Mirror, Bewildering Stories, Issue #184, February 6, 2005

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue184/trick_mirror.html

 

Intelligence of the Hunted chosen as winner of Gold Dust magazine’s £5 ‘Star Poem’ competition, February 2006; published in March issue of Gold Dust magazine.

http://www.golddustmagazine.co.uk

 

The inaugural issue of Wingspan Quarterly includes It’s All About How You See Things.

http://www.lulu.com/content/254027

 

 

 

Order your copy here: http://www.lulu.com/wingspan/

 

A Trick of the Mirror appears in “The First Bewildering Stories Anthology. ISBN #978-1-4116-8538-3

http://www.lulu.com/adventurebooks

 

Some Things Disappear, a series of interlinking prose poems, Bewildering Stories, Issue #192, April 13, 2006

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue192/things_disappear.html

 

Polar Mouse, “Highly Commended” in Twisted Tongue’s First Flash Fiction Competition; title & author name listed in Issue 2

http://www.twistedtongue.co.uk/update.htm

 

A Trick of the Mirror appears in Bewildering Stories’ First Quarterly Review of 2006, Editors’ Choices from Issues 176-188

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/anthologies/176-188_antho.html

 

Pavor Nocturnus, Bewildering Stories, Issue #194, April 24, 2006

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue194/pavor_nocturnus.html

 

Cabaret, Bewildering Stories, Issue #199, May 29, 2006

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue199/cabaret.html

 

My Dad, Bewildering Stories, Issue #201, June 12, 2006

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue201/my_dad.html

 

Runner-up in the Whatis.com ‘Fib’ competition, judged by Greg Pincus, the inventor of the Fibonacci poetry form

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci1184203,00.html

 

Some Things Disappear, Cabaret and My Dad appear in Bewildering Stories’ Second Quarterly Review of 2006, Editors’ Choices from Issues 189-201

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/anthologies/189-201_antho.html

 

Light Before Mourning, Winds of Change and Eulogy published in "Oi! 'The Write Idea' Poetry Anthology I"

http://www.lulu.com/content/339303

 

Fibonnaci Poems, Bewildering Stories, Issue #206, July 24, 2006

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue206/fibonacci_poems.html

 

Five Minutes More, Bewildering Stories, Issue #209, August 14, 2006

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue209/five_minutes.html

 

Two Double Beds in a Comfort Hotel, a collection of interlinking prose poems, appears in a major new anthology of speculative fiction, called New Writings in the Fantastic -- edited by John Grant (aka Paul Barnett) and published by Pendragon Press. Launched in the UK at Fantasycon 2007 and in the US a few weeks later at the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga, New York, orders are gratefully accepted here:
http://www.pendragonpress.co.uk/bookpages/newriters.htm

 

Three fibs (a new poetic form, based on the Fibonacci sequence), Chocolate, Moon Dance, and Fibs for the Worker, appear in the inaugural issue of The Fib Review

http://www.thefibreview.com/


Plays

 

Deception, a one-act play, was produced for the 2005 Toronto Fringe Festival and appeared at the Factory Theatre.

http://www.freewebs.com/bathroomlight/plays.htm

 

Now a listed playwright at http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsG/GagnonDonna.htm

 

Non-Fiction

 

Carpenter Ants

http://www.log-world.com/article_carpenter_ants.php

 

Marmoleum flooring is seriously fun . . . naturally!

http://www.log-world.com/article_marmoleum.php

 

With a love of wood

http://www.log-world.com/article_with_love_wood.php

 

A Visit with B. Alan Mackie

http://www.log-world.com/article_visit_mackie.php

 

B. Alan Mackie at Shanty Lake – a photo tour

http://www.log-world.com/article_mackie_photo_tour.php

 

non-fiction published as Donna L. Ottley:

Telephone Troubles, The Parents Exchange, October 1993

A New Kid in the House, The Parents Exchange, November 1993

Uncovering the Magic of Christmas, The Parents Exchange, December 1993

Nature’s Fireworks, County Life, May 17, 1994

The Log Home Dream, Cottage News, December 1994

 

children’s fiction published as Donna L. Ottley:

Janet Planet and the Very Different Pet, Kids Exchange, September 1993

 

Links -- sites I heartily recommend!

SmokeLong Quarterly
http://smokelong.com

Cafe Doom
http://www.cafedoom.com


Gatto Publishing
http://www.gattopublishing.com

Bob Thurber -- master of flash fiction
http://home.comcast.net/~bob-thurber/


the forester ~ michael w. hobson
http://home.hobson.net/


Ian Duncan Smith
http://www.catallus.freeserve.co.uk/


Ian Durham
http://ian-durham.blogspot.com


Toronto Fringe Festival
http://www.fringetoronto.com/

Keir Cutler
http://www.keircutler.com/

Brian Nation -- boppin' a riff
http://www.boppin.com/

Floyd Publishing
http://www.floydpublishing.com

Ritallin -- a.k.a Greg Frankson
http://www.ritallin.com/home.htm

Geoff Nelder and "Escaping Reality"
http://www.geoffnelder.com

Bibliophorum
http://www.bibliophilia.org/forum/

The Write Idea
http://www.helenwhittaker.net/phpBB2/index.php


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