FICTION SHORT
In The Sunday Paper began with a photo in the Sunday New York Times, and spun into a fantasia both wild and terrifyingly serious.
Brain Bank begins with the headline in the New York Times about a power outage at a lab where human brains are stored in refrigerated tanks. As their surroundings grow warmer, the brains begin to wonder about their futures.
Fruit, The Texas Review, Winter, 2005. Contemplating a simple apple leads the writer to a deepened appreciation of life. and a considered distrust of fruit.
Yris, The Dan River Anthology, 2005. A Mexican peasant woman whose dentist jokingly gave her rainbow-colored false teeth, takes her revenge.
The Krasniewski Sisters Sit at Home, The Portland Review, Spring, 2007, Vol. 53, No. 3. A famous painting by Leger got the writer thinking of three housewives sitting at the TV watching the shopping channel, and remembering a long-gone fourth sister.
It All Comes Back, Arcadia Magazine, Vol 6, Spring 2013. A phone call from a long-lost Kentucky cousin recalls to the author her childhood days fishing with their grandfather whose photo once appeared on the cover of Sportsman Magazine.
A Water Treatment, Midway Journal. Her long marriage just ended, her three daughters off visiting their father, Cora finds herself facing Christmas alone for the very first time. She is so fearful of the days ahead that she hardly notices the plumber who comes to repair a bathroom problem. But when he says he’ll have to come back just before New Year’s, she begins looking forward to his return.
POETRY
O, Will, If Thou But Would, The Battered Suitcase, Autumn 2011 Vol 4, Iss 2.
On Hogarth’s ‘The Orgy’ from ‘A Rake’s Progress, Burning Word, July 2011, Issue 59.
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