I placed Second in Oregon Writers Colony 2012 contest in the nonfiction category.
My short story, Ashes to Ashes placed second in Oregon Writers Colony 2012 short story contest. Along with other winners, I read my story at the Awards ceremony in November 2012 in Portland, Oregon.
For a time, I perched myself on a flat rock, comparing my life with the Guyandotte River. Just as its tributaries replenish it daily, changing it in some small—sometimes great—degree, so have the day-to-day occurrences of life changed me. Like the ri