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.
Over 600 short stories were nominated for the award (which includes nominations from 51 online magazines and journals, whose editors each selected up to three stories they had published in the last year). From these nominations, a volunteer panel of readers selected their favorite stories.
Celts and Kings: The story behind the mystifying disappearance of the Celtic Earls in 1607. The story of a lost love and Celtic Spirituality.
The story of a forbidden love going back 400 years.
The story steeped in Irish history, Ce
The Apple Tree Blossoms in The Fall, is the life journey of Carineh - a child, a teenager, a wife, a mother, but most of all a woman of purpose. From stories of her parents held-up by bandits; the white donkey gifted by Khomeini; her father's death f
As deafness, illness, and demonic forces close in around him, Ludwig van Beethoven must summon his faith and genius to complete the Missa Solemnis—a sacred masterpiece he believes could bring divine light into a darkening world.