• The YouTube Sensation

    Check out my story on the Booked Solid in Santa Fe blog!

  • OU Football zine

    Growing up in a football and OU obsessed town, I stubbornly avoided getting involved with and liking football.  I didn’t even apply to go to the University of Oklahoma, knowing I needed to get out of town for college.  For me, moving three blocks down the road for university, would be knowingly putting myself in…

  • The Magic Bees

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  • The Laundromat

    PHOTO PROMPT © Miles Rost  I didn’t know how much time I spent at the laundromat, but it was enough.  Enough to make me feel like a bit of a failure, but also reminded me I had come so far. I spent much of my free time in laundromats doing other people’s laundry. I had to…

  • Worldly

    Draped among the branches  Happiness abounds  Yellow finches bathing  In a recess on a granite cliff  Unusually quiet  Beautiful and desolate  And as remote as the moon 

  • World Changing

    The moment there was a shadow in my doorway, something was wrong.  No one ever visited the lab this late, even if they had forgotten something – the security was much too cumbersome to come back for something small and insignificant.  I knew the visitor was here about the experiment and the results I had…

  • The Garden

    Flowers are calling  Forever singing my name  Always flowing free  Vivid gardens bloom  Splashy colors reaching up  Towards the bright blue sky  Showing me my dreams  Always teasing the future  Where I will be free  Photo by corina ardeleanu on Unsplash

  • Criminal Underworld

    “I need to clear the air.  I am not the whistleblower, but I know this is what needs to be done.”  I talked to my reflection.  I was the newest reporter at the Sentinel and I knew I had the biggest deadline of the year sitting on my desk.  The list of officials who were…

  • The Mummifier

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  • The Pirates

    “I always have a bag packed.  Just in case,” I said noticing Angela looking at the bag in the corner of my room.  “Just in case of what?”  She asked skeptically.  I knew she was dying to look inside and see everything.  She was just nosy enough not to let it go.  “The pirates.  They…