This story, published in June in Academy of the Heart and Mind, portrays a character who becomes integral to the next Sally Peyton novel. In this story, his name is Dr. Li. In the book, which remains a work in progress, he is Dr. Fang, and much more happens to him and his family.
Summer Shorts
Inspiration can come from anywhere; standing in line in a store and overhearing three young women talking and laughing.
Or watching people interact while on a walk.
And sometimes, a prompt from one venue results in a piece accepted in another.
First Story Printed
This blast from the past was published in August 2020. It was my first freelance writing success.
Notes From A Baseball Dilettante
Lucky Losers
"Be it known that at the end of our baseball season, my firing squad will execute the batter with the lowest batting average and the pitcher with the highest earned run average."
El Jefe Marcos de Conejos Feo, the dictator of the tiny country of the República de Santa Clara, made this decree standing on the balcony of the presidential palace in his khaki uniform, all sparkly with undeserved medals. A smokey stench from the previous night's book burning still hung in the air. The building of La Hora, Santa Clara's only newspaper, stood at the opposite end of the plaza, boarded up with grey weather-beaten wooden shutters covering its windows and pro-government graffiti covering its doors. Read the Rest of the Story.
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