PERSONALS     Grit Magazine   March 2004
STUMPING THE QUIZ KIDS     Good Old Days Magazine   September 2005
MAY BASKETS     Good Old Days Magazine   May 2006
WASH DAY & WOODEN IRONING BOARDS     Good Old Days Specials   May 2006
COME-AS-YOU-ARE PARTIES     Good Old Days Specials   March 2007

ROMANCING THE OZARKS 2009   Two stories:  Blue Ribbons, The Real Magic
CHRISTMAS 1954    Looking Back   December/January 2010  (online edition)

IN THE WORKS:

PERSONALS, the novel.   Based on my short story published in Grit Magazine.  Ira is a 61 year old cattle rancher who lives alone on the family spread since the death of his brother.  Emma is 46 and has spent her adult life caring for her mentally challenged brother and the family's hog operation in the Missouri Ozarks.  Rodney is 28, and was born with an extra chromosome.  Through chance and circumstance, Rodney becomes acquainted with Ira and decides he would be the perfect husband for his beloved Emmie.  But there is a problem - how to get them together.  He thinks this is solved when Emma responds to a personals ad in their county newspaper from Single Christian Male.  He is sure that Ira is a Christian, so the ad must have been written by him.  Unfortunately, Emma is not cooperating and has second thoughts about responding to the ad.   She and Rodney are a package deal.  Would any man want a middle aged woman and the responsibility of a brother-in-law whose life is challenged by Down syndrome?