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Pistol in the Mud
Short story. Friendship, old guns and a dark secret.
3rd place winner, Madison Magazine's short fiction contest.
The Winter Wonderland
Short story. Old friends reuniting, getting drunk, talkin' about God and stuff.
Kudzu
Short story. War and recovery and the dreams in between.
Shelter
Short story. A cold night in Chicago for two homeless men.
First-place winner, Black Rock & Sage's Three Genres Fiction Contest.
Between Two Points
Short story. A re-tooled and, I think, better version of what used to be called "Parenthetical." Fairly graphic, so be forewarned.
Knife
Very short story. A woman makes a decision to help her people escape from a kind of prison.
Light
Very short story. A vignette, if you please.
Muffins and Motherfuckin' Scones
Short (very weird) story, completed. Let's just say that when an adoring patron requests the crafting of a tale in her honor, who is the humble author to deny?
A Life Androgynous
Short prose, pondering the meaning of sex and gender.
Tempting Faith
A completed, self-contained short story that's based on the basic concept of the upcoming novel. See Author commentary.
A Persistence of Floods
Poetic prose, short.
Learning to Bake Bread
This would be the second installment in what I'm calling my "Late September Stories Series" (the other being "Back Across the Desert"). A woman in her mid-twenties reflecting on her mom's death on its' 15th anniversary.
Back Across the Desert
A woman picks up a hitchhiker, a young girl,
for a jaunt across a stretch of desert between two cities.
"Winter"
Flash fiction. A girl on a journey.
Dammit (...Visits the World Again)
A bored and discarded diety brings two hapless strangers to it's 'home', an empty valley in the middle of nowhere, for some good conversation. Mix in the odd sheep and a revelation, some mud and a bloody nose, a world-changing event and a bit of brief nudity.
The Adventures of Dammit In the Real World
Sequal to "Dammit...Visits the World Again".

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Rising Into Consciousness / Duality
Fate, destiny, whatever. A chance meeting between two very different people leads them down a very unexpected path.
chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 chapter 4
chapter 5 chapter 6 chapter 7 chapter 8
chapter 9 chapter 10 chapter 11 chapter 12
chapter 13 chapter 14 chapter 15 Epilogue

Uber Gals and the Mystery of the Hen's Bane
This short story is a sequel of sorts to the stories "Rising Into Consciousness" and "Duality". It is advisable to read them first.

Warrior...Princess...Housewife
I thought to myself, "Self? What setting and scenario have ubers not touched on yet?" and self replied, "Repressed housewife Xena in the 1950's". Fearing that it could fast turn into a trashy dime-store novel, I decided to go with it.

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Shoestring Sisters: A Travel Memoir of Sorts
A nearly blow-by-blow acount of the road trip my sister and I took during the summer of 2002 that took us from Chicago to LA and back in two weeks and for just about $300 apeice. Enjoy the unbathedness of our heroines!
The "Sex" Dialogue
A Socratic Dialogue concocted by myself and some good people for a Logic class one semester. Very humorous, very informative.
Adam and Steve
The real story of Adam and Eve.

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