The Brightest Firefly: A Collection of Short Works
In these pages you will find poetry and plays, fiction and nonfiction. Enjoy the journey.
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Dear Reader
Dear Reader, When I started writing in 2015, I knew I would see my story through to the end. D ...
Fiction
Fiction Being best and otherwise strictly known for my fiction, it seems fitting to start a collect ...
In An Artist's Studio
In An Artist’s Studio Historical fiction carries a fairly intuitive explanation. With a robus ...
Sunday School Crossing
Sunday School Crossing In 2018, the Horror Writer’s Association chose to resurrect the popula ...
I Should Not
I Should Not Mary Magdalene Gilliam was my grandmother. My father’s mother. She passed away i ...
A Mirror Negative
A Mirror Negative In July 2017, I finished my very first novel. As a reward, and much needed mom-va ...
A Love Denied
A Love Denied I enjoy a nice cozy romance every now and then, but very little of my stories have an ...
Dirty Bombs
Dirty Bombs In October 2007, I deployed to Iraq for the first time. I spent the fifteen months reso ...
Etched
Etched Shauna wiped soapy water from the young woman’s slender rib cage, sending skin into go ...
A Foot Off The Ground
A Foot Off The Ground I was inspired this by the lovely Donna Munro at a flash fiction workshop&nbs ...
The Executioner
The Executioner I am probably wrong to assume men don’t have feelings, but shutting them off ...
The Last Piece
The Last Piece Soon after starting my first novel, I got stuck. I researched ways to work through b ...
Nonfiction
Nonfiction Nonfiction is called many things: memoirs, essays, journals. To me, nonfiction is most e ...
Writing A World
Writing a World I like to keep my goals in writing and hang them in common places around the house ...
Little Mary Magdalene
Little Mary Magdalene My grandmother, Ms. Mary Magdalene Gilliam (Werner), was a true matriarch in ...
Baghdad ER
Baghdad ER From October 2007 to January 2009, I was deployed for the first time to Baghdad, where I ...
War and Coffee
War and coffee For me, war and coffee go hand in hand. I simply cannot have one without think ...
Life on the Extra Board
Life On The Extra Board Much like military family life, the railroad has many challenges. A common ...
Mom-Clique
Mom-Clique I am quite a gregarious introvert with a large fear of missing out, or what the kids cal ...
Poetry
Poetry My weakest talent in writing rests in the prosy flows of poetry. All but one of these pieces ...
Showcase
Showcase I hate the way you love meThe way you feed on my miseryThirsting for my tears and sweat that fall to the gro ...
Masterpiece
Masterpiece Erase me from this painting of chaosIf you can find meI seem to fit in so wellCaptive of my own choicesPr ...
Don't You Know
Don’t You Know For Jude and Val Don’t you know that you are mineThat I will carry, and feed and warm ...
Plays
Plays As a novelist, I do not have a particular opinion or insight about writing plays aside from t ...
Is The Mind Not Of The Body
Is The Mind Not Of The Body? In studying the later Victorian Era and writers such as Oscar Wilde an ...
The Community
The Community CharactersJANNETTE: a 40 something year old womanMICHAEL: JANNETTE’s husbandNAN ...
