Take a break from gobsmacking news and the barrage of affronts to our moral codes. This week, I offer a short story about the consequences…
With so much disheartening news I was tempted to write an opinion, to join the league of outraged liberals, to voice my indignation at the…
Three other aspiring writers and I have been writing a short story a month for Elegant Literature Magazine since April. We’re given a prompt and…
For years I have had the intention to publish my mother’s diaries. That almost sounds like a really bitchy thing to do, doesn’t it? She…
A wonderful way to end a good summer is to travel to somewhere you’ve never been. I’m in Barcelona. I’ll go from here on to…
Conversations at family dinners are decidedly different when there are newly discovered blood relatives in attendance. My older sister gave a baby up for adoption…
No one knows a couple like the couple knows the couple. It just isn’t possible for anyone on the outside to fully understand the nuances…
Previously I believed I could not write fiction. It’s not important why I thought so, just note that I went from “I can’t,” to “here’s…
One evening, circa 1975, my boyfriend was driving me home. We were having an enormous fight; I had talked to another man at the bar….
On impulse one evening I googled ‘short story contests Canada’. And guess what? The CBC short story contest is under way! The deadline for submissions…