Some of My Writing

Fiction
Award-winning debut short story collection; fifteen “sharply observed tales of contemporary angst.”
--Kirkus Reviews
Anthology
More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure
New Writings
My short-short story "Dear Heap" was featured in Foundling Review.
"Wendy in Rehab" was published in Northville Review.
My short-short story "Mine" was featured in Stone's Throw magazine.
Themed Anthologies
Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction by “Generation X” writers
Poems on the theme of "what might have been."
Poetry, fiction and memoir from New England women writers
Short Fiction
You can read some other stories of mine, not included in Pleasant Drugs, through these web links.

My Writing on the Web


“An Old Story”--Micro-fiction, published in Pif, Vol. 28. Click here to read the full story.

Excerpt:

Sitting up cross-legged in bed Sunny stared down at the wrists he had kissed that one time. She linked her hands around each wrist as though hiding invisible scars.

And now you can leave me, she told him.

I can't yet, he said, my foot's asleep.

Both of them laughing at such drama.


“Deep into the Darkness Peering”--Short story, published in Terra Incognita, No. 3. Click here to read the full story.

Excerpt:

The ghost comes to him each afternoon at three, more steadfast than the most faithful lover. He never speaks to her. He does not know her name or remember her face. He does not know why she was chosen or what she might require of him. He only knows that she comes to him each day, and that each day his mind seems less his own.

Her patience cannot be exhausted. His torment can never end. Nor her sorrow at his torment.

I know.

For I am the ghost that haunts him, the red skirt of a memory he can never dance away.


“Palm Sunday”--Micro-fiction, published in The Pedestal Magazine, No. 23. Click here to read the full story.

Excerpt:

She likes his hands best. How they droop out of too-big cuffs. How his fingers are long and they taper, like the hands of artists, of saints. She thinks there is something medieval about him, illuminated, as if he couldn’t possibly exist in this world. She wants to paint him in sunset colors, an Umbrian landscape. Raw Siena. Burnt umber.