Writing
"The Mommy Purse" - The Daily Palette, November 7, 2008
I wrote this story for a Writer's Digest contest. They didn't bite, but The Daily Palette did, which gets me into their permanent online archive. So I'm pretty happy! Click here to read.
"The Earth in Flood" - Perspectives, July 2007
This journal publishes stories told
from the points of view of animals and objects. My piece tells
the story of Noah's flood from the point of view of the earth. Click here to see the Perspectives webpage.
"Quality Time" - The Rockford Review, Winter-Spring 2007
I wrote this story based on a
Writer's Digest contest. Though it didn't win, I really liked it,
and it has finally found its home. Click here to see the Rockford Review ordering page.
“The
Peasant Revolt” – Vox, April 2006
(Reprinted in The Flash-Flood July
30,
2006)
I'm
fascinated by medieval history, especially the peasants' near-victory
in a revolt in England in 1381. This flash fiction was
inspired,
in equal parts, by "revolting peasants" and the style of O. Henry. Click here to read.
Entry in the Sci Fi section of relaywriting.com - April 2006
I
wrote the third installment in this ongoing science fiction novel.
Click
here to read.
"A Ride Home" - Buffalo Carp, January 2006
“Lost
Son”
– Verbsap,
October 2005
I
wrote this story in response to a
24-hour writing
challenge. While it didn't place in the contest it was
written
for, it ended up finding an even better home. Click
here
to
read.
“By
Mail” – Calliope,
March/April 2005
Calliope
is a publication of the Mensa creative writing SIG (special interest
group). This story combines my love of time travel stories
and O.
Henry endings. Click here to read.
“The
This tiny
story grew
out of a long-standing story idea. Click here to read.
"Lunch
Date" - Downstate Story,
December 2004
"Bird
Watching" - Peeks and
Valleys - Short-short - Honorable mention, Annual Flash
Fiction Contest – August 2004 (reprinted in The
Flash-Flood, October 11, 2006)
This
brief
story grew
out of dark
little daydreams about what would happen if the wrong person read a
diary. Click here to read.
"The
One Size Fits All Story" - ChiMe –
Serial short story – January-June 2004 (six-part series,
published
The
Chicago Area Mensa
newsletter
published this serial. I had once invented a TV series idea
in
which the setting/genre of the show changed each week, while the
storyline carried through. This kind of thing, I have found,
is
much easier to accomplish on the page! Click
here to read.
"On
a Barstool" - New
Times
– 55 Fiction – one
of 20 winners – June 2003 (Reprinted in the
55 Fiction is a form of
micro-fiction in which the author attempts to tell a complete story in
55 words or less. Click here to read.
“Inside
She” - The
Pegasus Review – Short-short –
September/October 2001 (reprinted in The
Flash-Flood, October 11, 2006)
This piece
was my first
attempt to write a story under 500 words long. Click here to read.
Hutton
Publications' Rotten Romance
(Worst Romance
Sentence) Contest for 1997- First prize
I learned
that it is
very hard to create "good" bad writing! Click here to read.
Mystery
Time's
Mystery Mayhem (Worst Mystery Sentence)
Contest for 1996- Honorable mention
My first
success in
purposely-bad sentence writing. Click here to read.
"Probing
Guys' Guise" - Wry
Bred - Satirical
essay- September 1996
I wrote this piece for a
high school English class.
It became
my first post-high school publishing success.