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Stories and Articles

Nonfiction

The African American Woman Who Shaped the Future of Art,  A rarely recognized woman, the artist Meta Vaux
Warrick Fuller, laid the foundation for The Harlem Renaissance. 
On The Issues Magazine, Fall
2009.

Essays

"This image," a meditation in Heart Beating Beneath the Earth by Jann Rosen-Queralt

Introduction: "A Sculptor and a Poet" in Stonedust to Stardust, A Collection of Poetry and Drawings by Lorrie Goulet, Free Scholar Press.


"Passage To India" -- After the death of her mother, the writer, guiding a group of college students in India, sees
the ghost of her mother and follows her to a place that is a monument to love -- the Taj Mahal. 
Selected for The Inspiration Room by HBO #BecauseOfHer, a gallery show in New York City.  MAMM Magazine, on women and  cancer. See PDF below.
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"Tender Rival" -- Not knowing how to deal with the news that her mother has ovarian cancer, the writer becomes
jealous of a relationship developing between the mother and her doctor. 
MAMM Magazine on women and
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Short Stories

"The Echo" -- A  teacher's pride soars when a young women exercises her voice in prose "Short Takes" on the topic of "Activism."  Persimmon Tree, Spring 2014.


"A Basket of Biscuits" -- A girl learns from her grandmother how 'the help' turned the tables on klansmen.  On The Issues Magazine, Winter 2011.

"Mona's Coat"
-- A black mother shows her mettle when she goes with her young daughter to buy a coat in a not-entirely-friendly white department store. Noted by A Room of Her Own Foundation, Orlando Gallery of Writers and Artists
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"The Bag" --
Mona, raised by her grandmother and step-grandfather, returns after the death of the elderly man, the one who had always made her feel most at home.


"No Title" -- NEW! A woman, a pandemic, a lockdown in Romania and a neighbor who comes to the rescue.





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