I have been writing a while

     I decided to look online and see what work of mine might still be there. I found only two stories remaining and they are from the last century. Sounds like a really long time ago doesn't it. In the Rose and Thorn Ezine I have a story called Jessie's Angels. The story was inspired by my mother-in-laws angel collection. I had fun writing and I think wrote two versions of it. The other story I found on-line was Private Services in La Petite Zine. This story was inspired by my mother-in-laws ashes being delived by mail to my husband and me in a box much smaller than I expected. Her wish was to be spread among bushes at a neighborhood live theater in the area where she lived.
     I really like the short story form. When done properly it is like a diamond. Compact and brilliant moving toward one conclusion and only one conclusion. It lingers in the mind after it is read causing the reader to think about what happened and why. I've won several writing competitions with short stories and am proud of that. They are little slices of life that touch another person.
     McDiggs is finished with Glory which I told you went to the printer. I will have several weeks before the finished product comes back and  sales can begin. While I have a little down time, I'm going to begin working on a book my son and I are co-writing - or maybe you'd say we have already co-written it. My son was in Kuwait and Iraq last year. We each kept a diary and I kept the letters and emails we wrote back and forth. I hope a compilation of these things will help other families deal with the many circumstances of millitary deployment. In fact, I'm going to work on that right now.