stories

Stories are why I'm out of bed 5 a.m. every morning. Quite reasonable dues to pay to belong to a writers guild, whose members go back millennia. Much of my fiction takes place in Portland, Oregon--often in my inner city neighborhood. One of the one-hundred plus officially designated neighborhoods, Irvington has many fine old houses and sometimes is likened to living in the 1920s. While characterized as a multicultural hotbed of political activity, home to poets and philosophers, and a gentrification turn-around, I'll let the stories speak for themselves and leave Irvington as backdrop for the fictional lives that follow.

choices:

"La Mosca," amarillo bay
"Steps," mississippi review
"Zigzag," savoy


or all three above, plus eleven other stories, in The Cat at Light's End , a short story collection now available, print and e-book editions, at lulu.com

Read an excerpt here.

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