Prose
The 2020 Covid lockdown provided a wake-up call. I’ve spent a lifetime hearing stories and living them, too – way past time to start writing them down. So, like so many old folks during the pandemic, I began to write memoir, stories taken from life.
Memoir seems to tap into a different part of my creative resources than verse. Verse filters trauma; memoir exposes it, it’s harder for me to produce. But I feel the need to perservere. I hope my prose pieces continue to find their way to good homes.
Here are links out to some recent bits of memoir available to read online:
- “The Bee Gum” in issue 197, page 10 of RFD Magazine
- “Allegro” in Prism & Pen
- “This Side the Ground” in Stoneboat Literary Journal
- “Bats” in Halfway Down the Stairs
- “Acorn Cap” in Creation Magazine
- “Scorched” in The Muleskinner Journal