A WRITER WALKS INTO A BARN . . .
Stories and Poems from the Heartland
It's all about the ride . . .
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TROPHY GIRL, coming out Sept. 30, 2021
It’s summer 1957, and when fourteen-year-old Sandy Turner goes missing--along with one of her late mother’s hidden scrapbooks--Aunt Maggie can think of only one place the girl might be...
Before the Dark Gives Way
some mornings
before a pin-light breaks through
to the gift of another day
my brain is an ocean
of unbidden thoughts
slithering and overlapping
like eels in a tank
a collective awareness
of things long submerged
regrets and missteps
betrayals and abandoned wants
those mornings
before the dark gives way
I repeat my children’s names
like talismans, recenter myself
on my speck of the universe
and breathe
MENDOCINO COAST WRITERS CONFERENCE 2020
I started the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference in 1989, and they will meet for year 31 this July 30 - August 1. To see the 2020 presenters, events, and scholarship information, visit http://mcwc.org/