Short fiction published at Bright Light Café

"Emma's Favorite Thing to Look At" has been published at the Australian website Bright Light Café, an online source for "free, positive entertainment" and "a showcasing centre for wonderful new and established talents." Thank you to Barbara Ann Llewellyn and Rod Kirkham for accepting this poem. You can read it here.

Poem online at Bright Light Café

"These Things" has been published at the Australian website Bright Light Café, an online source for "free, positive entertainment" and "a showcasing centre for wonderful new and established talents." Thank you to Barbara Ann Llewellyn and Rod Kirkham for accepting this poem. You can read it here.

Poem online at Bright Light Café

"Though Unseen, Her Soul is Lucid" has been published at the Australian website Bright Light Café, an online source for "free, positive entertainment" and "a showcasing centre for wonderful new and established talents." Thank you to Barbara Ann Llewellyn and Rod Kirkham for accepting this poem. You can read it here.

Soul in the South

I’ve been forced to address my soul in these tree-covered hills, this region of NASCAR and Civil War ghosts. Guitars, banjos and fiddles saddled to the wind. Mockingbird mornings. Moonshine sunsets. Do I miss Chicago, with all its steel beams and fragmented forest? Car horn mornings? Cell phone sunsets? Where I was constantly jabbed in the sides by strip malls and cars breathing down car’s necks? The patchwork wildness seemed okay at the time because it’s all I’d known. But now I live where it spreads out like a big whoosh against the horizon. So what’s more to say? The soul’s no longer jabbed.

Short story published at Flashes in the Dark

What happens when hungry birds are denied access to their favorite birdfeeder? Find out in my short tale "Red Icicles," now posted at Flashes in the Dark. Thank you to Editors Lori Titus and Robert C. Eccles for accepting this story. To read the story, click here.