Publications
Short Fiction Break ~ January 2026
Sunlight On Water earned a Runner-Up award in The Write Practice Fall 2025 Short Story Contest and was published in their digital magazine. The story: A grieving young woman must reconcile regrets after her father's death with startling revelations about the man she thought she knew -- and the life he dreamed of living.
September 2025
My historical suspense story The Blood Stone of Shiva won First Prize in the "Suspense/Thriller" category of the 2025 Next Generation Short Story Awards and was published in the print Anthology of Winners. And, my contemporary story The Time and Space Conundrum was a Finalist in the "Wild Card" category and is listed in the anthology.
Look for the anthology on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble.
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"An End of Troubles" Anthology
History Through Fiction ~ March 2025
My story The Blood Stone of Shiva appears in History Through Fiction's print anthology as a Top Ten prize winner in their Fall 2024 short story contest.
From Mana W Rothstein's review on Medium:
“The Blood Stone of Shiva is a truly exceptional story that will appeal to anyone who loves historical fiction, complex characters, and thought-provoking themes. What I think really sets this story apart is its ability to balance suspense with deeper questions about identity and morality. It’s a short that will keep you up late at night, turning pages and wondering what happens next."
Find the Anthology on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.org
Elegant Literature ~ July 2024
A House Fire on Woodside Road is a somber tale of two neighbors in a crumbling Atlanta suburb whose relationship explodes into violence and revenge on a steamy Fourth of July. This story features social conflict I hadn't previously explored in my writing. I enjoyed stretching a new set of "writer muscles."
Elegant Literature ~ May 2024
In The Tempests, two co-workers, Lucia and Nick, conceal their passionate affair from their colleagues at a boutique art museum on Manhattan's Upper East Side. It's a lush contemporary romance. . . until Lucia begins to wonder if Nick is concealing clandestine activities from her.
On The Premises ~ April 2024
I was thrilled when the editors of On The Premises invited me to be a guest writer. House Sitting by Betty features one of my favorite characters. Betty is an aging woman who risks a desperate solution to her struggles with addiction and homelessness, until relief arrives in an unexpected form. A version of this story placed as a Finalist in the San Diego Public Library Short Story contest in 2025.
Elegant Literature ~ January 2024
The Offerings won the San Diego Public Library Prize for Best Short Fiction in 2023. It's a bittersweet contemporary love story about grief, guilt, and forgiveness, with undertones of suspense. The version published in Elegant Literature is a shorter version of the story that won the SDPL Prize -- but the emotional heat and its afterglow remain.
Elegant Literature ~ December 2023
Fur Baby is my first published short fiction. It's a quirky tale about a young woman who is having a series of very bad "hair days." Very. Bad. After a stealth video of her predicament goes viral, things get really bad. Really. Bad.
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