Friends, I’ve been sitting on this one. Until I had the space to really talk about it–the first fiction I have written about having had cancer. The story is called “To the Fire,” and it’s featured in the current issue of High Desert Journal, alongside work from Rick Bass and Rachel Toor, two authors I admire. I also had the … Read More
Wednesday Works in Progress: Witch Burning
What a pleasure it is, after nearly two weeks away from the work, to have a short story again finding its shape in imaginative space, unexpected details looming into view. Today, in the short story I’m drafting, which goes by various names, Sylvia Plath showed up. This is the tale of a woman in her thirties facing a difficult diagnosis who … Read More
