The Formative Power of Stories

There’s a wonderful quote by Meg Ryan’s character in the movie You’ve Got Mail : “When you…

Small Gems of Irritated Hope

I seem to have a fascination with pearls. Not in real life so much as in a symbolic way–they keep popping up in…

She walks on wounded feet, carries white roses to the willow by the pond on the hill: three roses, the number of those…

Lately, I don’t feel like I have much to say. Well, let’s be honest… it’s the novel….

On the nights when God is silent, she curls up against the dark, her breath a thorn embedded in her throat. At last, all the…

Recently, I discovered that the man who plagiarized me has died. My fiction has been plagiarized a couple of times, but this was…