Book Review, Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s, by Traci Parker
Black Perspectives, October 2019
Book Review, Black Perspectives
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“Ban”
Ars Medica, Fall 2011
A young aide in a nursing home must face her own revulsion and rage in order to provide the compassion she intends.
“Three Women Wishing for a Boy”
The Broken Plate, 2011
Surprise pregnancies change the life of three women across three generations. That shared experience, although full of similarities, creates as much division and antagonism as it does connection.
“Happy Sometimes”
Yellow Medicine Review, Spring 2011
A breakup forces Thomas to evaluate his life, and he experiences a quiet yet startling insight. He realizes the work he did in prison training service dogs has more significance than anything else. So far.
“Souvenirs”
American Fiction: The Best Previously Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, Volume 11, New Rivers Press, 2010
When Lana’s husband returns from Iraq, she must become the full-time caretaker for him and their two young children. But the temptation of Victor’s medications eventually proves too much for her. Available for order from your local bookstore, Powell’s, or Amazon.
“Three Women Wishing for a Boy” audio
The Drum: A Magazine for Your Ears, May 2010
Surprise pregnancies change the life of three women across three generations. That shared experience, while full of similarities, creates as much division and antagonism as it does connection.
“He Used to Say Te Quiero Everyday”
Steam Ticket, Volume XIII, 2010
After receiving a dinner invitation from her aunt, Marisol has to consider the life she’s created for herself and her daughter as a result of falling in love.
“The Tangle of Stems and Light”
Blueline, Volume 30, 2009
A morbid discovery leads a married woman into an unexpected conversation with her neighbor. In an act of both rebellion and ambivalence, she invites the man into her house for a drink.
“The Things You Take, The Things You Leave”
Natural Bridge, Number 19, Spring 2008
Eleanor, a woman dealing with alcoholism and transience, returns to the house she shared with her husband. Once there, she must face the reality of making her own choice.
“Histories”
Hospital Drive, Issue 1, Summer 2007
When a young aide learns unexpected things about some of the patients and staff in a large nursing home, she realizes people go through life struggling to truly know each other.
“Nina”
Square Lake, Volume 4, 2004
This brief encounter in a grimy laundromat depicts a moment of missed possibility for two women.