Fiction

pumpkin bread cut into slices

The Dinner Party, part 1

Caroline stepped in the slush again and swore.

two women's faces looking at each other

And They Were Roommates…?

Move-in day: Ruby and Jane’s Dorm room

a brown and shadowy forest feauturing a buck whose antlers are shedding staring directly at you

An Afternoon at Deception's Pass

Deception’s Pass State Park is quite beautiful, but it also has an eerily haunting quality.

The Perfect Man in a black t shirt and a blue / purple background.

The Perfect Man

So now I just show up — pepper spray tucked into the bottom of my purse — and pray that I don’t end up on the next episode of Dateline.

sharks on the bottom of a pool

shark

where i come from, there are sharks in every lake

the surface of a body of water with lines of red blood floating on the right

Chicken Fight

He didn’t want to play, but you pressured him.

an eyeball made up of pink, orange, and white worms on a dark blue background with waves and stars

feast, your eyes

Sometimes I think there are worms in my eyes.

girl in the center with hands grasping at the edges of a frame

He Calls Her Barbie, for short

But she has always desired Something. 

A library with shades of green, blue and red

The Library

18 year olds everywhere, in every decade, all the same. 

brick roads or blue background with a door

On Seasons and Motherhood

I knock, gently, on the door, but there is no answer. Perhaps I am at the wrong address.