short stories and flash fiction
“What It is to Say Goodbye”
Eclectica Magazine—April 2006
“To Have and To Hold”
Wild Violet—April 2006
“The Thrill of it All”
Doorknobs and BodyPaint—September 2005
“First Blush”
Binnacle—December 2004
“Cuban Cigars”
Edifice Wrecked—May 2004
“First Thing in the Morning”
Three Candles—April 2004
Awarded a Million Writers Award-Notable Online Stories of 2004
by StorySouth
“Smoke”
First Place Winner—Doorknobs and Bodypaint—April 2004
“The Girl at the Side of the Road”
Literary Mama—March 2004
QWF Magazine (UK)—June 2005
Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined
Anthology; Seal Press—June 2006
“Weight Watchers” and “Jack and Mrs. Sprat”
Wild Violet—March 2004
“When In Rome”
Insolent Rudder—December 2003
“Snap Shot”
Smoke Long—December 2003
“A Cautionary Measure”
Smoke Long—September 2003
“To See the World in a Grain of Sand”
Tattoo Highway—September 2003
First Place TH7 Contest—A Picture is Worth 500 Words
Reprinted Literary Mama—May 2004
“A Mother’s Story”
Doorknobs and Bodypaint—August 2003
“Avon Calling”
One Paycheck Away Anthology, Main Street Rag—June 2003
“Life Cycles”
SaucyVox—March 2003
Reprinted Crock— 2004
“Fran and Chloe”
Wild Violet—March 2003
“Painting Walls,”
Gin Bender—March 2003
“The Laura Ashley Room”
Biff’s Online Special Life Cycle Issue—Spring 2003
“Life is No Fairy Tale”
Pierian Springs—February 2003
Reprinted Cellar Roots—May 2004
Awarded a Million Writers Award-Notable Online Stories of 2003
by StorySouth
“Shape of Things to Come”
Green Tricycle—February 2003
“Happy Like Me”
Octavo: Poetry Quarterly of the Alsop Review—Winter 2003
Short-listed Alsop Review writing competition—September 2002
Awarded a Million Writers Award-Notable Online Stories of 2003
by StorySouth
“O-Zone”
Insolent Rudder—January 2003
“Number 9”
Fiction Inferno—Sept 2002—Runner up Very Short Fiction Contest
“Marshfield: A Suburban Fairy Tale”
Whole Terrain: A journal of Reflective Environmental Practice— Spr 2002
Reprinted terrain.org—June 2003
Reprinted Wild Thoughts Magazine—April 2005
“A Temporary Measure”
So To Speak: a feminist journal of language and art—Summer/Fall 2001
Second place winner So To Speak 2001 Short-Short Fiction Contest
Reprinted in Flashquake—Spring 2002
“He Cut Deep”
DOJ (Drexel Online Journal)j—July 2001
Winner of the 1998 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award
“Suspension”
So To Speak: a feminist journal of language and art—Winter 2001
Reprinted in mélange—September 2001
Reprinted Frigg Magazine—January 2005
“Counterbalance”
Friction Magazine—March 2001
Third runner-up Net Author E2K Flash Fiction Contest—May 2000
Portable Muse—Summer 2004
“Don’t Bring Me Flowers”
Able Muse—Spring 2000
Reprinted The Beat—August 2005
Awards & recognitions
Million Writers Award, Notable Online Short Stories for 2004—“First Thing in the Morning” selected by storySouth
Million Writers Award, Notable Online Short Stories for 2003—”Happy Like Me” and ‘Life is no Fairy Tale” selected by storySouth
Virginia Commission for the Arts, 2000/2001 Individual Art Fellowship program for literary artists—finalist
Heritage Writer Award, George Mason University—1998
Mary Roberts Rinehart Award in fiction, George Mason University—1998