Creative nonfiction &magazine features
MY FATHER BROUGHT HOME A NEWSPAPER CLIPPING WITH A PICTURE OF A model who had asymmetrical hair, one side short like an undercut, the other a wide bang that drooped across her forehead and face. Big bangles
Published by Assure Press Iris Literary Journal
A narrow river of slush rushes along the curb. On the boulevard, patches of dirty snow sit in shady places. Among the sticks that will soon become lilac hedges, we see soggy, crumbled potato chip bags—free for the taking. Colleen collects them for a kids’ TV show. She plans to win the pink bike with rainbow streamers.
Published by Sky Island Journal
Mrs. Invereighty’s hair rises straight up from her forehead like a tiara. “A woman’s hair is her crown of glory,” she says, and I believe her. Unlike the nuns who hide behind rimless glasses and yell with mouths that have never tasted lipstick—Mrs. Invereighty understands the meaning of life.
Published by The Ravens Perch (Short listed by Fish Publishing and Room Magazine)
n 1974, my mother and Richard Nixon developed thrombosis. By that time, the old radio was broken, and she relied on a square transistor about the size of a jar. First Nixon resigned. My mother dialled into the news to hear his crackly yet smooth voice: “By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.”
Published by Write Launch
1946 Horsens Denmark. Once upon a time in the land of Hans Christian Andersen, Ingrid began a new day. She was an ordinary-looking Danish girl with a slightly crooked front tooth, the consequence of having a very small mouth. Although no one spoke of it, they all knew the defect resulted from inbreeding. The farmers who had lived for hundreds of years in remote parts of the country often had no choice but to marry their cousins.
Published by Prism International (Prism International Prize)
The Cancer Man
Thirty years ago, Dr. Niels Jerne was conducting experiments in Paris, believing he had found the secret to fighting disease. Any disease—from mild illness to cancer. Jerne won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1984. But, as an impassioned Dr. Tony Noujaim, president of AltaRex Inc., states, “It was still just a theory. No one had proven Dr. Jerne right.
Published by Alberta Venture (shortlisted for the Western Magazine Awards)