After Betty Gardiner dies, she
leaves behind her country house for her family. Nowell, her grandson, first
moves in then soon after his wife, Vivian. The day Vivian moves in, a teen girl
dies in their backyard and...
I've been working on a story collection for a while. It began as a few vivid scenes I wanted to work out and grew, as scenes sometimes do, into something larger that included more and more people. I began to think about...
Recently, I found a story I wrote some time ago. It’s a
sketch really, an idea barely fleshed out, something to pass the time.
A young women finds herself the contestant on a television dating show, a
premise which...
So I received an email from Goodreads the other day. I’m on
some of their email lists; I think this one was a weekly “Look What’s New” kind
of mailing. Lots of featured books, all linked up so you could buy, rate and
discuss...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
