Stories
— Weeping Willow Words: And, Tree, Happy, Flame, Suddenly, Whisper The old oak tree swayed ever so slightly in the playful summer breeze, one that was like a young child oblivious...
— The Guinea Pig Left Behind The guinea pig shuffled around, pacing in her cage, and padding about on the soft scraps of wood beneath her paws. She had been...
— An Author’s Evolution I remember standing at the very top of the jungle gym. While two chestnut braids swayed down by my hips And bangs, in need of a trimming,...
— A Pair of Eyes The flat bottom of the gondola sliced through silent yet disturbed waters with the smoothness of silk and the quickness of a little bird. As Eva...
— and and what is and? and is between even though is is between between and and and is walking and talking and is cause and effect and is so and...
— A Fallen Blue Words: global warming, boat, sing, soundlessly, wolf, furious The sky was furious. Smoke drifted up, up, up into the blue. Her voice, so intoxicatingly sweet most days,...
— Cinnamon the dragon loved jello, Cinnamon ate jello every day. Jello on toast, jello spaghetti, Jello in April and May! Cinnamon’s favorite jello was green, He ate it most of...
— A girl with a vast imagination discovers her father is the legendary Bird of Steel and must steal his power to save Riverhaven from eternal conflict between humans and magical...
— When humans sleep, kitchen objects come alive for nightly revelry — dancing in washcloth dresses, gossiping, playing ping-pong, and sneaking cookie crumbs before dawn signals their return to stillness.
— A city girl discovers a magical forest where animals talk and time moves differently, spending what she thinks is a year but is actually ten years researching nature.