My stories for younger children range from Timeless Myths and Life Lessons to Quiet Imagery and Poetry, along with some General Fiction/Adventure.
My stories for youth of middle grades and older and my stories for adults often involve some sort of craft/hobby/sport, together with some science or technology, and a moral question.
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| Lorlei Dragon Dance |
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A young dragon dances her own way and is both dismissed and valued - but never loses her sense of self |
| The Laughing Rooster |
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A rooster who laughs? What good is that? Maybe more good than he thinks! |
| The Rooster Who Forgot |
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What did the rooster forget? |
| Cora Shaker, the Jellybean Maker |
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An inventive older woman deals with ups and downs but never loses her way |
| Why Knots? |
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What causes tangles at night? Curious answers and a win-win result. |
| Kinda, Sorta, Like – You Know |
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A young girl learns the value of words |
| The Girl Who Had Too Many Things |
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A young girl faces bounty and learns about what is enough for her |
| Purple Frog |
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Doing the right thing, getting noticed and wanting to blend in |
| The Silver-billed, Duck-billed Platypus |
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A platypus with a complaint goes on a magical (or not so magical) quest, guided by a wise friend |
| Dragon Star Teeth |
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A very short myth about acquiring and balancing different qualities |
| Word Shadows |
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A new myth about the origins of some pictographic languages |
| The Tree of Plenty |
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What is enough, and when? A young gril has a magical encounter and discovers for herself |
| Passing the Dance of Harmony |
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A young girl's rite of passage involves singing her own song and dancing her own dance |
| Compound Lace |
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An old woman transfers a lace pattern she sees in a tiny part of nature into crocheted art |
| Butterfly Breeze |
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A butterfly and an artist meet briefly |
| The Wonderful Smell of Polyglot Valley |
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About eating together and speaking together |
| Speck |
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A very small clam on a very big journey with a surprising discovery about himself |
| The Magic Loom |
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Two girls and their parents on journeys of place and relationship |
| The Magic Ladder |
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How does the magic ladder work? |
| The Starfish and the Strawberry |
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A quiet, small, beach adventure |
| Animal Lullabies |
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Turtles visit animal friends to add new verses to their lullaby |
| A Nighttime Book for Parents and Children |
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Peaceful nights for children and adults |
| Meet the Shape People |
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Shape People visit with you and bring you home, showing the shapes and pictures that happen when they play together. What shapes will you see today? |
| Ode To a Lost Friendship |
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Reflections on a friendship long lost and still mourned |
| Hanging by A Thread |
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A modern spy traces the steps of a long lost agent to find an antidote to today's rising level of violence |
| The Phantom Player |
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A star quarterback starts seeing receivers who aren't there....or are they? |