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Is the Door Opening For Novellas?

Middle-length fiction (10,000 – 60,000 words) has been a rarity for much of the last century. There were few avenues to publish it because it was too short for a traditional book and too big for literary magazines. Occasionally, you …
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Sappho: Behind the Scenes

Originally, I found the idea of writing a short story intimidating. How could I tell an entire story in only a few thousand words? In fact I resisted the idea until Tina, the leader of my writer’s group, organized a …
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“In Between” – a short story

Are you a man? Or a woman? Or something else? Who gets to decide what you are? You? Your doctor? Your therapist? The government? In my short story “In Between”, Martina Glover is in the process of transitioning from male …
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Back to Writing

After taking a few weeks off to study web design and create a whole new look for my site, not to mention the premiere of my short story “Sappho”, I am back to writing. Today, I’ve been working on another …
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“Sappho” – a short story

Teenager Sappho Espinoza-Brown is being bullied at school. But rather than inform her lesbian mothers, Sappho chooses to take matters in her own hands with disastrous results.
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