The third story from Sandcastle and Other Stories is dedicated to my mother. The photos are of The Girls, Myrtle and Lucille (who I called twins even though they were three years apart...
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The inspiration driving this tale was to use only one setting: a beach. And the challenge I set myself was to give Sandcastle a twist that would be so shocking that a reader...
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The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business was a runner-up in an Ernest Hemingway Short Story competition. A tale of madness, murder, and regret . . . it is also the first of two...
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If you have not read the previous two sections of A Great Distance, The Beginning & The Middle, please go back to Part 1 by clicking HERE. These three sections were placed in the longer...
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In A Great Distance, Part 2, Deepika continues to tell the story of her main character, the intrepid reporter, Sai, and Mrs. Plesher, a woman with secrets she freely shares; he’s asked to interview...
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Yes, I have a fun, smart, humorous friend with the name of Deepika, and she allowed me the use of her name for one of the characters in my first novel, Wake Me...
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The young man has never been afraid of hats before. In fact, he’s recently found himself admiring them. The hats on the heads of the men in this town have actually seemed to...
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Okay, I’ll stop with these two happy Kipling photos and carry on with my recommendation I searched for the anthology The Best American Short Stories 2011, a series that comes out each Fall with...
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