Wait, I'm Still Up

I thought I would do one more thing before I left, and that was to add the book Oregon Writers Alliance 1996 Anthology. I found out in the process that books don't have to have ISBNs to be in the data base. Yay! I also noticed that Medley of Fiction is not on my To Read list but on my Currently Reading list. Thirdly, I saw no option to edit my published blog posts. So there it it, folks.

I'm happy to talk about this latest publication I've added because it includes one of my fiction short stories, a personal experience story, and two poems. Although it was also a small-circulation anthology, you might be able to access it electronically through the Library of Congress. The data about that, which is printed on the back of the title page, confuses me because it says 1994. Evidently, the Alliance printed an anthology that year as well. I can't tell you about that because I wasn't part of the group that early. And I believe the 1996 was the last one they made. Sadly, writer's groups rise and fall with time.

Here are the contributions I have in this anthology:

"A Mother for Jackie" describes the agonizing legal battle of a woman over her baby--a battle in which she was consistently "punished" for trying to do the best thing for her daughter.

"The Princess and the Coal Boy" is a short story about a young woman pushed by her mother to change her size in order to land a man--and a lowly stranger who finds her beautiful just as she is. It includes my own illustrations, but the grayscale published versions don't do the original art justice. Unfortunately, the originals have been lost.

"Ouch" is one of my shortest poems, written for laughs, but sadly a little too true.

"My Peacock" describes an episode from my childhood with a pinata I loved and almost worshiped.