A teenage photographer loses her artistic innocence and maybe more. Published in Northwest Review, 2000.

An artist who creates puppets invests commonplace living with a surreal intensity that isolates her from everyone - until she encounters an odd octogenarian. Published in 13th Moon, 1993.

Two fine arts students deconstructing the notion of romantic love find their own friendship devolving toward an inevitably cliché attraction. Winner of the University of Washington's Milliman Award, published in Short Fiction by Women, 1993.

A collection of eleven short stories all previously published in literary magazines - two of them award winners.

A head-over-heels lesbian couple gets a visit from the narrator's prim and proper mom, who advises them not to be lesbians - but with a surprising tale that casts a spell over their afternoon. Published in CALYX, 2005.

A frustrated writer feeling trapped in her marriage receives a coming-out letter from her closest girlfriend in college.Winner of the 1992 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, published in Nimrod.

Forced to move and dreading puberty, a 13-year-old girl clings to childhood through her younger sister.Published in the Bellingham Review, 1990.

A college student's one week gig as a live-in sitter for two wealthy kids proves more than challenging. Published in Side Show, 1996.

A rooster raised from a chick wins a place deep in a young woman's heart, while her boyfriend fails to do the same. Published in Primavera, 1999.

A newly sober mom longing to get back custody of her daughter tries to make something happen. Published in Pindeldyboz, 2004.

A cynical narrator gets changed, just a bit. Published in Cranky, 2004

Who is the Meat in the basement? That's the question on police SWAT Lt. Boulder Johnson's mind. The basement is in his brother-in-law Harley Earle's house and the question is important; Harley's wife Becca, Boulder's sister, was never found after the uprising that saw the dead awaken. They were known as Meats when they were preying on the living. Now that they're supposedly gone, could it really be a Meat in the basement? And if so, who? And if it's who Boulder is afraid it is, for the lov...