The Garden Sky

The Garden Sky

Selected for ‘The Best Small Fictions of 2015’ by Queen’s Ferry Press – Fall 2015  Sue’s Reviews of GoodReads says of the 55 Winners, “Some I loved: The Garden Sky stands out in my mind and I will read that many more times.”...
The Roomba Variants

The Roomba Variants

(First published in NewPopLit – March 7, 2015) Goomba travels the dance floors of Italian weddings, accepting gift checks through a slot on top. Notes the guest’s name and the number of zeroes in the amount. Then, somebody could either have a good time or get...
The Breathing Game

The Breathing Game

(First published in Marathon Literary Review – January 28, 2015, the ‘American English’ version. When I first wrote this, I was intrigued with the idea that it could have happened anywhere. So I wrote it again; this is the ‘South African’...
Future Wine

Future Wine

(First published in print in Stoneboat 5.1 – Fall 2014) Climate change will challenge traditional wine making, while new areas of the world will be able to grow competitive vintages, even North Korea.  Here are some new wines we can expect to please our palates...