From my studio office where I write and create visual art, I can view the rolling hills surrounding the hundred and two acres I share with husband, John. My debut collection consists of contemporary literary stories rooted in nonurban experiences.
“In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.”
― Too Much Happiness
“In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.”
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“City people. They may know how to street fight but they don’t know how to wade through manure.”
― On the Jellicoe Road’
“Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast.”
― Last Night in Twisted River
“My head was a magpie’s nest lined with such bright scraps of information.”
― Too Much Happiness
A few titles of stories I’ve written appear below.
- Words for a Friend’s Headstone, Blank Spaces, Literary Magazine, Grey County, Ontario, June 2018
- It’s an Oven in Here, Polar Expressions Anthology, BC, 2018
- Something for Rain, The Belle Journal, USA, 2017
- Crisp and Savoury, Five2One Magazine, 2016
- Die Ordnung in Intercourse, Rhubarb Magazine, The Gender Issue, Volume 38, Winter 2015
- Little More than a Boy, Severine Lit Mag, Volume 1, (Be)Longing 2015 (Scroll to page 11 to find the story)
- A Threadbare Towel, Synaesthesia Magazine, UK 2015
- Heads of Candy Floss,The Bohemyth, Ireland 2014
- Mayor der Wolf Meets the Three Little Pigs, The Steel Chisel, 2014
- The Girl in the Crimson Shirt, Story & Picture, 2015