Short Stories

Short Stories and Non-Fiction

"Who Shot J.R.?" Sleuths Just Wanna Have Fun (April 2025)
"Opera Dinner Club", Anything But Murder: Larceny and Lies (Book: April 2025), Podcast (April 2025)
"Wuv and Marriage," Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Fall 2024 (September 2024)
"You Can't Kill the Cat!" First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder (June 2024)
“Going for All the Marbles,” Games People Play: Opening Gambit (March 2024). Interactive can-Jack-solve-it podcast version (April 2024)
"Just Four Minutes to Get Even," Dark of the Day: Eclipse Stories (April 2024)
"Game Day," Kings River Life Magazine (February 2024)
"A Diverse Thanksgiving," The Perp Wore Pumpkin: A Humorous Crime Anthology to Benefit Second Harvest Food Bank (November 2023)"
"Red Hats and Cummerbunds," Tales from the Golden State of Mind (May 2023)
"So Beautiful, or So What," Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon (October 2022)
"Death in the Hand of the Tongue," An Element of Mystery: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales of Intrigue (September 2022)
"The Girls in Cabin Three," Black Cat Mystery Magazine #12 (August 2022)
"Say It With Flowers," Texas Gardener's SEEDS (January 2022)
"Bucket List Dreams," Murder by the Glass: Cocktail Mysteries (September 2021)
"Biff's Place," Jukes & Tonks: Crime Fiction Inspired by Music in the Dark and Suspect Choices (April 2021)
"Wabbit's Carat," 2020 Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Writing Competition Honorable mention published by Bethlehem Writers Roundtable - Winter 2021.
"Forensic Magic," Masthead: Best New England Crime Stories (December 2020)
"Harvey and the Red-Head," The Eyes of Texas: Private Eyes from the Panhandle (October 2019)
"Pig Lickin' Good," Malice Domestic Mystery Most Edible ( May 2019) - 2020 Derringer Short Story Finalist
"The Dinner Gift," Bethlehem Writers Roundtable - 2018 Short Story Competition Award Winner - Honorable Mention - (January 2019)
"Christmas with the Shark," The Birmingham Arts Journal (Summer 2018)
"Day After Thanksgiving Soup," Mystery Weekly (November 2017)
"Fear, Passion, and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine," Southern Writers Magazine - T Suite (August 18, 2017)
"A Golden Eclipse" - Day of the Dark: Stories of Eclipse (July 2017)
"The Night They Burned Ms. Dixie's Place" - Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (May/June 2017) - 2018 Agatha and Anthony Finalist
"Good-bye Nora Ephron" - Dearly Beloved - (March 2017)
"A Garden for Adonis" - SEEDS - (January 11, 2017)
"Thanksgiving I Do, I Don't" - Kings River Life (November 2016)/reprinted Cooked to Death IV: Cold Cut Files (March 2019)
“Lesson Learned“ – Terrible Twosdays – Akashic Books (March 2016)
“Gracie’s Bucket List” – Over My Dead Body! (December 2015)
“Violet Eyes” – Over My Dead Body! (December 2015)
“He Didn’t Go With Her” – Birmingham Arts Journal (October 2015)
“This is Where I Buried My Wives“ – Bethlehem Writers Roundtable (September/October 2015)
“Exotic” – Kings River Life Magazine (2015)
“Power Play” – Birmingham Arts Journal (February 2015)
“Grandma’s Garden” – reprinted Texas Gardener, SEEDS (January 2015)
“Hot and Cold” – Kings River Life – (November 2014)
“Chocolate Velvet Pie Recipe” – Bake, Love, Write (2014)
“Thanksgiving in Moderation” – The Killer Wore Cranberry: a Fourth Meal of Mayhem (October 2014)
“Early Frost” – The Birmingham Arts Journal (April 2014)
“Who Dat? Dat the Indian Chief!” – Mardi Gras Murder (2014)
“The Rabbi’s Wife Stayed Home“ – Mysterical-E – Mystericale.com (April 2014)
“A Political Cornucopia“ – Bethlehem Writers Roundtable (November 2013)
“Meme’s Place” – It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (August 2012)
“Grandma’s Garden“ – Alabama Writers Conclave Short Fiction Award Winner published – www.Alalit.com (August 2012 – pg. 129)
“Legal Magic“ – AWC Humor Award - www.Alalit.com (2011 – p. 110)
“Malicious Mischief” – 2010 Chattahoochee Valley Writer’s Conference Short Story Competition Award
“More Hugs, Less Fear" – MORE Magazine Online (April 2010)
“Maybe I Should Hug You” — 2009 Alabama Writer’s Conclave Nonfiction Award

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