Fiction I'm not ashamed to admit I've written

Self-portrait, 1987

Fiction I'm Not Ashamed To Admit I've Written

Speaking in Tongues. A woman raised in a strict fundamentalist home comes to college and tries to deal with living in a secular environment.
The Sky Disk. Two boys in a rural New England community are affected differently when a New York artist decides to use a field near their house to build a big outdoor exhibit.
Juniper Tea. A college freshman coming home for the holidays meets a sixteen-year-old witch on a Metro-North commuter train and they strike up a friendship. Deals with stuff about creativity, sterility, faith and magic. About 45 pages long.
In Captivity. A college student starts taking piano lessons and starts, at around the same time, trying to deal with living in a dangerous urban environment. These two things end up being connected. About 45 pages long.
Membership. A reporter investigating the mysterious death of an infant in a wealthy suburban family meets a woman on the grounds of a country club who guides her through the golf course.
So Dance. Hard to describe, but basically it's a retelling of the fable of the ant and the grasshopper from the point of view of a third party with divided loyalties.

Till Voices Wake Us. A 15-year-old girl living in a Maine coastal town tries to understand her developing sexual identity. When she and her best friend discover a dolphin in a remote cove and she begins creating a fantasy world based around him, this does not make things easier. Written when I was in college, and it shows.
Women On Fire, an original fantasy series in search of a publisher.
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