Creative Nonfiction Essay
"Ungrudingly" follows the narrator's outdoor wait on a frigid night for admission to the Capitol Rotunda where President Carter's casket lies in state. The story examines the role of forgiveness in moving on from pain and retribution to healing.
"Mismeasured" is a story making its way from disappointment to reconciliation. The narrator wants to study violin at a prestigious music school. She fails the audition, then abandons that dream and playing of her instrument. Decades later music comes back to her through her daughter and her community.
Fiction
" A Mothering" chronicles the sighting of a stranger in a park eerily resembling the narrator's mother and the slow-burn grief over the mother's decline into dementia.
Prose Poetry
"No, the Other Right," is a prose poem expressing the narrator's bewilderment with pedestrians who fail to follow "the rules of the road" when crossing the street at major crosswalks in urban environments.
"Megisti Hilltop" is a prose poem excerpted from Linda's memoir-in-progress. Megisti is another name for Kastellorizo.