I wrote this flash piece originally based on a prompt. It was a joy to write in the sense that I heard the character’s voice immediately in my head and the story just flowed from there. Even the title came to me easily (compared to how it normally does –…
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At the lake’s edge
In 2017 Sudbury’s Poet Laureate, Kim Fahner put out a call for people to submit tweet-length poems for a Rain Poetry project modelled after ones done in places like Boston – See Example. The concept was that the winning entries would be painted on sidewalks around town with “invisible ink”…
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Frozen
A flash fiction piece that was originally published in Formation – A Collection of New Canadian Short Stories by Polar Express Publication in 2010 this was story was reprinted in 2016 as part of the Sudbury Ink – A Sudbury Writers’ Guild Anthology. A rather short and dark piece that…
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Mother’s Day
A short story published in 2016 as part of the anthology Sudbury Ink – Mother’s Day tells the story of Angela who’s given a Memory Wand by her adult son Leo. A technological gadget that allows it’s users revisit their memories. Angela is resistant to the idea of exploring her…
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Second Harvest
Published in Fictionvale in May 2014 as part of Episode 3: A Different Outcome, my story Second Harvest was the first story I sold. Fictionvale was a new online market that has since folded, but it published a lot of good fiction in the short time it was around. You…
Sudbury Ink – A Sudbury Writers’ Guild Anthology
I am proud to be included in this anthology – Sudbury Ink – published by the Sudbury Writers’ Guild. The organisation has a long history of bringing together writers in the community in order to support each other, they’ve been around since 1992. I’ve had the honour of being the…