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"Million Dollar Pie" Country Roads Magazine, June 2008 (Summer Fiction Contest winner).
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Synopsis:
Frank can’t seem to do anything right. In the three years since finishing his philosophy Ph.D., he hasn’t managed to find a teaching position. He alienates his wife, accidentally hangs up on customers at his temporary office job, cooks chili that makes his friend sick, and finally tips over a canoe in Lake Pontchartrain. After the last incident, Frank decides to write a new philosophy paper and apply for teaching jobs again. His friend acts supportive, but secretly believes that Frank is doomed to failure. -
This story is currently available in its entirety on the Country Roads Magazine website.
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"The Dream" Phantasmagoria. vol. 4, no. 1 (2004), Century Community College, White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
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Synopsis:
What happens when your greatest dream starts to come true? Susan's life as a data-entry clerk in a library is about to end when she receives a letter accepting her for the master's degree program at Columbia University. She can quit working at a job she hates, move out of the tiny trailer she shares with her TV-watching husband, and leave for New York. But Susan starts to worry that the change might be too much. She'll have to leave most of her things, her parents, and the places she's always known. Should she just throw the letter in the trash and finish making the gumbo for dinner?
