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When Evert and I joined the Dutch team for an International Photography Competition in north-central Turkey, I never dreamed I'd be writing fiction about what happened there.

Hers develops into the better photograph, though I saw it first.

Nor would…

One last goodbye kiss to winter – Decay of the Dark is a story that reminds us that the dark can be a friendly place. Without the dark, we cannot see the light, just be in a searingly bright world…

Funny how words take on new meaning. Agency was where I worked; I opened an advertising agency in Phenix City, Alabama once upon a time. Agency can mean effective action, as in, My new love was the agency of old…

What's it like to move to a new country? Hannah gets a few eye-openers when she moves to Barcelona…and as you may guess, some of it happened to Evert and I.

I'm happy that my story The Way In is…

When bad love hits like a hurricane, you come up clutching and gasping, grabbing anything handy to get to shore.

If you recognize it.

Sometimes we love too much, too deeply, too kindly, to see clearly and then you can…

A young mother faces lifestyle choices at her first Grateful Dead concert in Phoenix. Feel Like A Stranger features fried chicken, loose dogs, and the Go-Gos. A fiction story in the music literature magazine The Syncopation Journal.

Join a UGA college student who enters a Wet T-Shirt Contest and experience a cold splash in Free Tits! (Reader's Tip: use the More ellipsis to magnify or download the story for easier reading.)

"You perfectly captured the collisions between…

A Flash Memoir and Collage by Deborah Wilbrink

It had been a long day, fun and fishing on the ocean. Now I reached into the back seat of the new-smelling coupe for my purse, wanting to refresh my lipstick during…