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Star-Crossed

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EXCERPT  |  Rob and I were as different as night and day. He was East Coast traditional, I was West Coast, not-quite conquered territory,...

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Self-Help

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Winner of the Renwick-Sumerwell Fiction Price, The Crescent Review, 1997 EXCERPT  |  During the sermon, I try to decide what it is about...

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Improvising

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EXCERPT  |  It was hard not to see my sister’s fling with the singer at the martini bar as some sort of family experiment to see if she...

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Blood

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Winner of the 2010 Short Fiction contest in ABQ the Mag EXCERPT  |  You watch the fire chew through the ashes at the tip of the...

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Detox

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Published in Ellipsis, 2004 Published in Wilde Frauen An anthology of women writers featuring Isabel Allende, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret...

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