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My grandparents shocked everyone at their Golden Anniversary when they informed us that they would be taking a break from their relationship. I for one did not know this was something grandparents were allowed to do. 

Time Breaks Sometimes

Chapter excerpt from my novel-in-progress, Like Snakes Among Vines

Like Snakes Among Vines

"Mama sews me a skirt

to wear to church. The seam

only kissed the sewing

machine

              & after the sermon

it confesses like wings

that lay bare their frame with each flight."

On Birds, Tristan, My Loneliness as Kafka's Diaries

02/ 1/16 Goodwill $1.99

What might I give

for a fossil footprint secure in the desert

or a stretch of tar sand to hold me for infinity?

Glass Coffin

Conflict arises between a Holocaust survivor and a teen during a tour of an Anne Frank-themed exhibit. 

Author's Note: I witnessed these events in 1995, while training to be a tour guide for this Anne Frank Exhibit. 

Some People Say the Holocaust Never Happened

This story also won a Sullivan Award at my undergraduate institution, Stetson University.

Semiprecious Memories

“Les Hommes des Vertes Montagnes,” “Understanding Joanne,” and “Integration”

“Weave,” Athena said. “Because you love it. Weave because it’s the only thing you know how to do. Weave, and when they tear down your cobwebs, weave new ones. Weave, and if you can, remember me.”

She’d never know if the spider understood.

I Am In Your Sway

The Spider and the Butterfly - a short story by D. P. Snyder

My Story Praying to the Porcelain God in The Write Lauch

Praying to the Porcelain God

My family divides itself: Before Africa and After Africa. My parents and brothers referred to our collective lives this way for as long as I can remember. There is nothing more to say about some things: That was before Africa. 

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