Background to a Story

My short story “A Brief History of Barbed-Wire and How It Affects and Does Not Affect the Life of Hannah Johnson Shoemaker” was published in the premier issue of Museum Americana in 2012. The historical background to the story was also published. You can read the story and the background information by following the linksContinue reading “Background to a Story”

To Know which Way

The following story was first published in Bluestem (Karamu, spring 2006, Vol. XX, No. 1). It received a literary award from the Illinois Arts Council. Later it was published in my collection The Story Ends — The Story Never Ends (ELJ Publications Copyright 2015). It is an elegy to my mother. To Know Which Way the Cat Jumps,Continue reading “To Know which Way”