Magazines and Literary Journals
I love magazines. I usually subscribe to about six at one time! I've written poetry for Cappers, Absolute Write and Crochet World and book reviews for PieceWork. My essays, articles, and short stories have appeared in AAA EnCompass (Colorado), ByLine, Interweave Crochet, Mindprints, Mslexia, Sasee, Simply Beads, Thereby Hangs a Tale, and other publications. Some excerpts are below. I was originally going to label them "fiction" and "nonfiction", but I've decided that it would make it more interesting if I didn't!
Love, murder, attempted cover-up—it all began yesterday when I got a message at The Pacific Post that some rich guy on the island had a cleaning emergency.
—"Good Advice", Short Stuff for Grownups, July/August 2003
As a little girl of seven or eight, Norma sat on the bed in a small
Bronx apartment and watched her mother make sweaters. At first,
Norma started by crocheting little circles from the scraps of yarn.
As she grew older, she tried to crochet around a doll.
—"The Circles of Life: A Portrait of the Artist Norma Minkowitz ", Interweave Crochet , Spring 2006
The bedroom is tidy,
The kitchen is clean.
The living room sparkles,
The bathroom, pristine.
—"You Don't Need to Be Crazy to Write, But it Helps ", Absolute Write, November 2006
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You take a tour of an old cheese factory downtown and the tour guide asks the group to guess the purpose of the adjoining rooms. You look at the lack of windows, the thick cement walls and the narrow opening that connects them. Maybe it would be a good makeshift mortuary, some place to stash the bodies? Were there mob connections? Everyone turns to stare. "Cottage cheese," says the tour guide when she recovers. "They made cottage cheese."
—"Where Do You Get Your Ideas? ", ByLine magazine , July/August 2005
Now a mob swarmed below, swinging bats at windows and throwing beer bottles.
—"Word Power", FLASHSHOT, March 6, 2006 (Finalist for a Derringer Award, Short Mystery Fiction Society)
My hairdresser picked up a magazine with a grinning 13-year-old model on the cover. "This would look cute on you. Want to try it?"
Somehow I managed to open my mouth and utter three fatal words: "Sure, why not?"
—"Elvis Has Flown South for the Summer", Sasee, August/September 2005.
Like most junkies, I didn't think I was the one with the problem.—"The Seven Signs of Craft Addiction," Sasee, September 2007.
What seems like a wonderful idea in June—I'll make all my gifts this year!—can quickly turn sour by December. —"Your Holiday Beading Survival Guide," Simply Beads, December 2007.
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