Hannedy’s Flowers
Two flash fiction stories from the life of Hannedy, an elderly environmental conservationist who was once a little girl playing in her mother’s garden.
Vera and the Witch
Here’s another short story from back in my college days, when I was taking courses in creative writing.
I’ve taken some liberties with Baba Yaga in this tale and created my own lost girl to meet with her. This Baba is a lot more like a grumpy old Sophie Hatter than the devilish pestle-wielding crone in the Cinderella-adjacent story of Vasilisa, but there have been many Babas Yaga in Slavic folklore–sometimes multiple in the same tale–so I don’t think I’ve strayed too far beyond the realms of possibility here.
Fish Out of Water
Written in the fall of 2016, this is still one of my favorites. Just about everything I wrote that autumn and the following spring was a joy to work on.
I thought this might make a good book someday. There’s a partially-developed world that I would love to dig into further: part 18th-century pirate story, part magical post-apocalypse, and lots of potential.
In this strange environment, I was able to explore transitional spaces between land and sea, human and Other, by placing a land-based pseudo-biologist medicine man on a ship in the middle of the ocean.