Published Stories - See Laurie write

Mrs. Breedlow Needs the

Number of a Reliable Handyman

Excerpt: “Mitch called to his dog, Blue, and opened the front door of his home, a red brick split-level situated under a mature stand of loblolly pines. Mitch and Brenda enjoyed sitting on the front porch in the evenings. They watched cars go by and talked about where they would go if they owned one of those RVs the size of a school bus. Mitch didn’t read much as Brenda, but he thought the sound of the pines when the wind was blowing up high in the branches was something like a poem.”

Published in Mid/South Anthology from Belle Point Press (available for purchase here)

Two Stories for National Flash

Fiction Day Write-in 2022

The Way I Choose to Grieve May

Look to Some Like Dying

Draw a Human Figure Without Lifting

Your Pencil

National Flash Fiction Day Write In – June 2022

Photo by Lavi Perchik on Unsplash

Perimenopausal Maleficent

Watches Bob Ross Videos

When She Can’t Sleep

National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood – June 2022

Photo by Gabriel Kraus on Unsplash

Being Married to Blake

Excerpt: “We lived tight and cheap in the single-wide with the single-pane windows and single bathroom and the kids doubled-up in a bedroom smaller than the high school broom closet where Blake gave me my first hickey and daughter number one.“

Published in Snow Crow, the 6th Bath Flash Fiction Anthology (available for purchase here)

Afternoons Spent Somewhere

Between Flying and Drowning

in Grapevine, Texas

Cloves Literary – April 2022

_{^{Photo by Corbin Bell on Unsplash}}

A view from a car driving at night on a highway with cars ahead getting smaller and smaller in the distance.

Some of your favorite things

aren’t meant to last.

Twin Pies Literary “The Gentle Slope” issue – March 2022

In Lieu of Flowers

New World Writing – January 2022

Proof of Life

Versification Zine – November 2021
_{Scroll down through the issue to find mine, but stop and read the others on the way!}

Some Things You’ll Do When

You Would Rather Be Happy

Winner, 2021 Lascaux Review Flash Fiction Award; Included in Best Small Fictions 2022
_{^{Artwork: “Interior With Woman Sitting at a Table,” oil on canvas, by Wilhelm Hammershoi, 1910.}}