2020/2021

Stories published in 2020 and 2021 with links to read on the publisher’s website. Click in “Read More” to see the listing of stories.

“Love and Accounting,”
MINISKIRT MAGAZINE, Volume 6, 2021
A friend once hosted a late night radio talk show by this name on the University of Kentucky campus. I stole the title, added a blizzard, and sprinkled the dialogue with the basics of interview and interrogation. What could be better?
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“Overheard in the Memory Care Unit of the Northwoods Retirement Village.”
Sledgehammer Literary Journal, May 2021
Come with me into the memory ward. I know the code for the keypad. Listen carefully. There are stories locked inside.
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“Hunger Bitten”
First Published in Bombfire Lit, April 10, 2021.
Ford knew what was coming. Everyone with a hand crank weather radio or a cell phone that the static electricity hadn’t shorted out, knew a giant duster—The Big One—was steamrolling its way across the prairie.
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“Queen of Bass Fishing in America, The,”
Coastal Shelf, Issue 3, March 2021
A photo in the paper of a woman with a bass on a stringer started the story in motion. It got more complicated after that. It was nominated for a Pushcart award and acknowledged by Pushcart as one of the Notable stories of the year.
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“Walking Away”
Red Ogre Review, 2021-03, March 2021
Family outings never turn out to be the bonding experience you hoped for.
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“Breakfast with Dad,”
reprinted by Malarkey Books, June 18, 2020
I invited the ghost of my long suffering father to join me for coffee at the kitchen table. This is the story that came out of those conversations.
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“Film at Eleven,”
White Wall Review, June 15, 2020
A determined team of women hope to record the stories of women caught up in the aftermath of a genocidal war. A reporter joins them, ignorant of what she will find.
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“Eva and the Bishop,”
Kalopsia Literary Journal, June 2020
Things happen.
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