I link when I can.
Creative nonfiction in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes: The Heat Wimp
Ekphrastic poem in Abundance: Joan in the Garden
Flash fiction in The Dilettante Zine: When the Flamingoes Landed in Portland
Creative nonfiction in JMWW: A Purse Full of Change: When I Left Missoula
Poem in NewMyths: A Robot Brings Flowers
Haibun series in The Mackinaw: Leaving Montana
A week of “Fake Nonfiction” silly horoscopes in Defenestration: IHateHoroscopes.com
Poem in Pasager: Awakened by the Nashville Skyline
Nonfiction piece in Open Secrets magazine: Just Like Christmas
Two poems in The Gilded Weathervane: After the Freeze, Northern Darkness
Short story in Persimmon Tree: Mysteries of June and August
Essay in Herstry: The Midwestern Table
Flash in Flash Fiction Magazine: Paint Chips
Short story in Thin Skin: Wet Rain
Haiku series in the voice of a silicone love doll in The Offing: RealDoll Haiku
Essay in Herstry: Fully Grown
Flash Fiction in Inknest Poetry: Monument
Poem in The Ekphrastic Review: A Professional Beauty
Flash in Flash Fiction Magazine: What John Gardner Says
Poem in Rust & Moth: The Red Thread
Poem in Hotpot Magazine: Twelve Steps to Forgiving an Impossible Sibling
Poem in The Gilded Weathervane: Flyover Country
Short Story in Black Eyed Peas, an Anthology of Hope: In Case of Emergency
Poem in Panorama, a journal of travel: Direction to the Six Virgins
Poem in Parks & Points (love the author photo they used): Spire Rock
Poem in The Ekphrastic Review: Barracoon
Poem in Subprimal: Our Dark Angel, Endlessly Falling
Poem in Mothers Always Write: Seventeen
Three-times-published by the late, great journal of the fantastic (in the fantasy sense), GOBLIN FRUIT:
- Ariel – a retelling of the Little Mermaid
- Penelope’s Bed – as in the wife of Odysseus
- Ceres (included in the Dwarf Star poetry prize anthology: 2011 Dwarf Star Prize) – a daughter’s grief
Micro story in The Binnacle: Caught (honorable mention)
Poem in Indiana Voice Journal: Working in Old Town
Poem in San Pedro River Review: Highway 99
Poem in Novocaine and Napalm: Disassembly Required
Poem in Impractical Cats: Murder
Poem in Seek It-Writers and Artists Do Sleep: Disaster Preparedness
The Gentry Books
These books are a ten-year+ labor of love. They explore family, class, and the uncountable ways in which humans harm and heal each other. I guarantee they will make you laugh. I also guarantee they will make you cry. The covers are by graphic designer Andrea Capp.
Volume One of the Gentry Books, available in Kindle and paperback at Amazon
Its 1996 when Gentry arrives like a scruffy prophet to usher in the era of the Internet at a small high school on the Oregon coast. He rents a small guest house, where he and his dog Bosco hope to enjoy an incredible view, some fishing and a lot of one-sided conversation. Is that so much to ask? Apparently so, as his landlady Kathryn and her two daughters have other plans.
Volume Two of the Gentry Books, available in Kindle and paperback at Amazon
After the damage left behind in Oregon, Gentry flees south to Oklahoma, hoping to find refuge with old friends. When his life slides into financial chaos on top of everything else, he must ask for help from a very unlikely quarter. The humor of his present contrasts with the nightmare of his past, and he longs for Oregon. Can he forgive himself enough to go back?
Volume Three of the Gentry Books, available in Kindle and paperback at Amazon
It’s a broken and humbled Gentry who finds his way back to Oregon, where it seems that everything and everyone has changed. But when Gentry makes a shocking discovery about his own life he has to make a sacrifice of the highest order. To help the people he loves, he must bring himself to reveal his deepest secrets, worst acts, and the dark truth of his childhood.
Volume Four of the Gentry Books, available in Kindle and paperback at Amazon
After the turmoil of his early years, Gentry approaches forty in a comfortable place. It’s all going smoothly…until it isn’t. When one of the most important people in his world delivers crushing news, the fault lines in this new life start to shift. A cataclysmic upheaval tests Gentry’s faith that he deserves the life he’s built.
Volume Five of the Gentry Books, available in Kindle and paperback at Amazon
Who is Gentry’s mother? The story of Francisca Marie Gentry begins on a Montana ranch, and covers her years as a young mother in a working-class neighborhood, into madness. When she ventures out into a changed world, the story of Francisca begins again…but first, she must find and face her long-lost son.
More Books
Available in Kindle and Paperback at Amazon.
Each day, Iris Bourne runs a motherly gauntlet in the California suburbs. With five kids, she has time for exactly one hobby—entering contests—and she’s just won a trip for two to Hawaii. She’s ready for a taste of Paradise, but her husband, Hart, keeps spoiling the mood by asking her if she’s happy. Happy? When Hart announces that he is not, her life becomes even more complicated…
Available at AMAZON.
Welcome to the Francie June Memorial Trailer Park, just outside Ochre Water, California. On a night when tempers keep rising and the wind won’t settle, a body is found face-down by Space 48. Who killed the Right Reverend Henry Heaven? County Sheriff Memphis LaCour is determined to find out. As he makes his way through the doublewides, he uncovers secrets that break apart his community, his family, and his own heart.
THIS IS NOT A NOVEL. I dined out on my excruciating tales of computer dating for years. With apologies to my friends, who have heard most of this before, my first foray into nonfiction collects my Used Man Store adventures with a few essays on various relationship adventures. Available in paperback, Kindle, and Kindle unlimited here: SHOPPING AT THE USED MAN STORE
The Chameleon Chronicles
A cozy mystery series set on beautiful Orcas island, co-written with Shannon Page under the nom de plume Laura Gayle
Available at AMAZON: ORCAS INTRUDER
Available at AMAZON: ORCAS ILLUSION
Buy at Book View Cafe: The Chameleon Chronicles (this can be side-loaded to Kindle)
Buy on Amazon: The Chameleon Chronicles
Print miscellany
I love being in actual physical print. Here is a little bit of that to share.
