“The Acorn”: An Ekphrastic Exercise
Ekphrasis: an artistic dialogue, in which one medium illustrates, evokes, or delves into the essence of another.
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“I noticed he’d also strapped his old helmet to the front of his bike on his handlebars. It had an ugly crack down the middle (but, as Uncle KJ always said, better plastic than bone and brains). Jagged bits of plastic wiggled in the spring wind.”
Read “Training Wheels and Cracked Helmets” a short story in The Darien News, March 2, 2023
“I want to tell her all the things I’ve asked in my journal and discussed with my husband, all the questions, the tension, the prayers, the hope in the pain. Instead, I take a breath. This moment in the dining room doesn’t have to be everything.”
Read “Yam Soufflé” a short story in McIntosh Life, Fall 2022 edition (pgs 58-62)
“Years later, a door opened for me to take a step of faith and be ‘serious’ about my writing. Clicking ‘Submit’ on that Creative Writing MSc application, and ‘Accept’ subsequently, was scary. But I did it.”
Read “Considering a Graduate Degree in Creative Writing?” on the Hillfire Press Blog