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Short Stories

All Stories below, except for "Unwrapped," published under pen name D. D. Renforth

No Ship is Big Enough (June, 2016, available in print in three c c & d collections: The 23 Enigma, Clouds over the Moon, and The Chamber]
 

Mark and Amy in the Desert (Romance Magazine, Volume 4, No. 4, May 9, 2016).

Cave Man (The Ekphrastic Review, May 28, 2016)

The Ice People (Swept Magazine, June 3, 2016)

Quakes (The Storyteller Anthology, March 2016)
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Jerrold's Agreement (Swept Magazine, October 13, 2016)

Before Father Lost His Mind (Microfiction Monday Magazine, November 2016)


Bill Died and Left Me a Pig (Microfiction Monday Magazine, December 2016) 

The Red Monk (The Ekphrastic Review, January, 2017 


Bella and the Billionaires (August 2017, available in print in two c c & d collections: While the Waves Crashed and Nothing Lasts or online here: 

Quest for Fulfillment (Indian Review, February 13, 2017) 

A Hug (Edify Fiction Review, Vol. 1, Issue 3, June 2017) 

Brand of A (The Ocotillo Review, Volumen 1, Summer 2017)
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Dogs and Insects (The Enchanted File Cabinet, Volume 6, Number 24, June 2017)
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Looking in the Glass (The Ekphrastic Review, October 23, 2017)

A Place to Murder Little Boys (Swept Magazine, November 4, 2017)

Dust on the Soul (Mused - the BellaOnline Literary Review, Winter, 2017)

Donovan versus Donald (January, 2018, in print in the c c & d collections The End of the World,, January, 2018 and Not a Trace, April 2018) 

Before Father Lost His Mind (a chapbook published by bird, buried press, Feburary, 2018)

The Art of Flying (Burningword Literary Journal, No. 87, July 2018)

Screams (Page & Spine, July 20, 2018)

Freckled Woman (The Woven Tale Press,  Summer, 2019)

When You Shoot an Arrow (Taj Mahal Review, June, 2019)

Locals Only (c c & d Magazine, v. 292,  September/October 2019)

Under the Wedding Dress (Parhelion Literary Magazine, Summer, 2019).

Dandelions (Taj Mahal Review, June, 2019)

Unwrapped (Edify Fiction, July, 2019)

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