Short Stories

Feeling dejected about his poor performance on a college exam, a paraplegic man races across campus toward his vehicle. He yearns to hurry home and seclude himself in peace and quiet, but instead, he’s hindered by one impeding stranger after another. Rapidly becoming overwhelmed with anger and resentment, he sees something that will change his life forever. He sees a bruised banana.

• AWARDS:
  • 1st Place - Fiction – Pen 2 Paper creative writing competition (Austin, TX) – 2016
  • 2nd Place – Writers Guild of Texas flash fiction contest (Richardson, TX) – 2015

While recovering from a car accident, which caused injuries and memory loss, Mia has been staying with her overprotective boyfriend, Connor, and his eccentric mother, Joanne. However, three days and counting, Mia is beyond ready to go home. Maybe there, she could find a catalyst—something, anything—that will restore her memories. But when Connor refuses her petition to leave, Mia turns to Joanne, and thus begins a New Age ritual, a descent into horror, and a recollection of trauma that Mia may regret uncovering.

• PUBLISHED:
  • Malice in Dallas, Metroplex Mysteries Volume 1 – Sisters in Crime North Dallas, January 2022