Short Stories

Short Stories and Non-Fiction

  • "Game Day," Kings River Life Magazine (February 2024)
  • "A Diverse Thanksgiving," The Perp Wore Pumpkin: A Humorous Crime Anthology to Benefit Second Harvest Food Bank (November 2023)"
  • "Red Hats and Cummerbunds," Tales from the Golden State of Mind (May 2023)
  • "So Beautiful, or So What," Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon (October 2022)
  • "Death in the Hand of the Tongue," An Element of Mystery: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales of Intrigue (September 2022)
  • "The Girls in Cabin Three," Black Cat Mystery Magazine #12 (August 2022)
  • "Say It With Flowers," Texas Gardener's SEEDS (January 2022)
  • "Bucket List Dreams," Murder by the Glass: Cocktail Mysteries (September 2021)
  • "Biff's Place," Jukes & Tonks: Crime Fiction Inspired by Music in the Dark and Suspect Choices (April 2021)
  • "Wabbit's Carat," 2020 Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Writing Competition Honorable mention published by Bethlehem Writers Roundtable - Winter 2021.
  • "Forensic Magic," Masthead: Best New England Crime Stories (December 2020)
  • "Harvey and the Red-Head," The Eyes of Texas: Private Eyes from the Panhandle (October 2019)
  • "Pig Lickin' Good," Malice Domestic Mystery Most Edible ( May 2019) - 2020 Derringer Short Story Finalist
  • "The Dinner Gift," Bethlehem Writers Roundtable - 2018 Short Story Competition Award Winner - Honorable Mention - (January 2019)
  • "Christmas with the Shark," The Birmingham Arts Journal (Summer 2018)
  • "Day After Thanksgiving Soup," Mystery Weekly (November 2017)
  • "Fear, Passion, and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine," Southern Writers Magazine - T Suite (August 18, 2017)
  • "A Golden Eclipse"  - Day of the Dark: Stories of Eclipse  (July 2017)
  • "The Night They Burned Ms. Dixie's Place" - Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (May/June 2017) - 2018 Agatha and Anthony Finalist
  • "Good-bye Nora Ephron" - Dearly Beloved - (March 2017)
  • "A Garden for Adonis" - SEEDS - (January 11, 2017)
  • "Thanksgiving I Do, I Don't" - Kings River Life (November 2016)/reprinted Cooked to Death IV: Cold Cut Files (March 2019)
  • Lesson Learned“ – Terrible Twosdays – Akashic Books (March 2016)
  • Gracie’s Bucket List” – Over My Dead Body! (December 2015)
  • Violet Eyes” – Over My Dead Body! (December 2015)
  • “He Didn’t Go With Her” – Birmingham Arts Journal (October 2015)
  • This is Where I Buried My Wives“ – Bethlehem Writers Roundtable (September/October 2015)
  • Exotic” – Kings River Life Magazine (2015)
  • “Power Play” – Birmingham Arts Journal (February 2015)
  • “Grandma’s Garden” – reprinted Texas Gardener, SEEDS (January 2015)
  • Hot and Cold” – Kings River Life – (November 2014)
  • “Chocolate Velvet Pie Recipe” – Bake, Love, Write (2014)
  • “Thanksgiving in Moderation” – The Killer Wore Cranberry: a Fourth Meal of Mayhem (October 2014)
  • “Early Frost” – The Birmingham Arts Journal (April 2014)
  • “Who Dat? Dat the Indian Chief!” – Mardi Gras Murder (2014)
  • The Rabbi’s Wife Stayed Home“ – Mysterical-E – Mystericale.com (April 2014)
  • A Political Cornucopia“ – Bethlehem Writers Roundtable (November 2013)
  • “Meme’s Place” – It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (August 2012)
  • Grandma’s Garden“ – Alabama Writers Conclave Short Fiction Award Winner published – www.Alalit.com (August 2012 – pg. 129)
  • Legal Magic“ – AWC Humor Award - www.Alalit.com (2011 – p. 110)
  • “Malicious Mischief” – 2010 Chattahoochee Valley Writer’s Conference Short Story Competition Award
  • “More Hugs, Less Fear" – MORE Magazine Online (April 2010)
  • “Maybe I Should Hug You” — 2009 Alabama Writer’s Conclave Nonfiction Award

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