RECENTLY PUBLISHED FICTION & NONFICTION WHICH DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE WEB OR IS NOT LINKED TO MY SITE:

"The Girl at the Side of the Road" QWF MAGAZINE in the UK (June 2005); "The Anole Story" CUP OF COMFORT FOR MOTHERS AND SONS (Adams Media; April 2005); "Life is No Fairy Tale" Cellar Roots (April 2004); "Teaching Failure" Storyhouse Coffee (September 2003); "Avon Calling" ONE PAYCHECK AWAY Anthology, MAIN STREET RAG Press (June 2003); "Teaching Failure" COMFUSION Special Issue on Education (Spring 2003). Previously appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Community College; “Marshfield: A Suburban Fairy Tale” in WHOLE TERRAIN: A journal of Reflective Environmental Practice— Spring 2002; "Suspension" A short story which appeared in SO TO SPEAK: a feminist journal of language and art—Winter/Spring 2001, and appears in FRiGG Magazine's Winter 2005 issue; "A Downgraded Policy on Honesty" THE WASHINGTON POST--June 2000

"First Thing in the Morning," which appeared in Three Candles, nominated for storySouth's MILLION WRITERS AWARD, Notable Online Short Story for 2004; Honorable Mention for two short stories, "Happy Like Me" and "Life is No Fairy Tale," storySouth's Million Writers Award, Notable Online Short Stories for 2003; Virginia Commission for the Arts, 2000/2001 Individual Art Fellowship program for literary artists—finalist; MFA Creative Writing, Concentration in Fiction, May 2000, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA;
Heritage Writer Award, George Mason University—1998; Mary Roberts Rinehart Award in fiction for "He Cut Deep,"—1998

MORE PUBLISHES STORIES:

"Picking Up the Stitches" in the anthology, Cup of Comfort for Expectant Mothers (Adams Media, Oct 2006); "The Family That Shops Together . . . " in the anthology, The Kid Turned Out Fine (Adams Media, May 2006); "The Girl at the Side of the Road" in the anthology, Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined (published by Seal Press January 2006);

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Notable Online Short Stories of 2004
One of my short stories, "First Thing in the Morning," which appeared in THREE CANDLES, has been nominated as one of the TOP ONLINE STORIES for 2004. I'm honored and thrilled that the editor of THREE CANDLES not only accepted and published this story, but nominated it for the award. From THREE CANDLES website: "Three Candles has featured new work by a World War II bomber pilot, a junk store curator, two Pulitzer prize nominees, three poets who have appeared in The Best American Poetry, a stay-at-home dad, two National Book Award winners, a Pushcart Prize winner, several Pushcart Prize nominees, a major in the Marines, English professors, editors of prominent electronic and print journals, a gardener, poetry students, a first-published poet, and scores of others from all walks of life." My short story is in good company!

Notable Online Short Stories of 2003
The storySouth Million Writers Award for Fiction announces the "Notable Online Short Stories of 2003" and two of my stories made the list: "Happy Like Me" which appeared in Alsop Review, and "Life is No Fairy Tale" which appeared in Pierian Springs. I'd like to thank the editors of those publications for accepting the stories and for nominating them. The purpose of the Million Writers Award is to honor and promote the best fiction published in online literary journals and magazines during 2003.

A Temporary Measure
This short story was the second place winner in So To Speak's 2001 Short-Short Fiction Contest; it appeared in So To Speak and was reprinted in Flashquake