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Short Stories
The Inner Fire – A criminal night adrift in a wildfire.
Evening Coda – Tone piece for a rainy night.
Chipman Inn Gossip – Oh the people you’ll meet.
The Forever Principle – Fame, athlete, corruption.
The Stars Beyond Midnight – An end or beginning?
Fable of the Diamond Dove – Morality tale.
Journey Through Night Part 1 – A sci-fi mystery in a time of war.
Journey Through Night Part II – New tensions and mysteries.
The Auction – A life is dismantled.
Strange Seasons of the Wellspring – Four unique stories.
Poems
Apprentice
Mother Love
Sidewalk
Voodoo Peony
Winter Driving
Gathering
Wind
Winter Beach
History in Yellow
Humpty Trumpty – A political satire piece
Imagine We Are the Last
A Silence of Thunder
The Mermaid
Poems read at the Columbus Arts Festival 2022