NONFICTION "Bloodsisters" Chapter 1 excerpt (from the upcoming Second Edition with family names and additional scenes) Adobe PDF 50.4K Here Betsy is hearing that she must leave her loving foster mother to live with her biological parents for the first time. Also present in the scene is Miss Reinheart, Betsy's social worker. "Bloodsisters" Chapter 5 excerpt Adobe PDF 50.4 In this excerpt readers can see that Betsy and Bootsie have grown close, and that Bootsie has her own problems with their father. ESSAYS The following excerpt is from my essay "Wholeness and the Short Story" published in Writers on Writing: The Art of the Short Story, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 2005. This excerpt cannot be reproduced without the express permission of the publisher 1-800-225-5800. "Wholeness and the Short Story" Adobe PDF 50K The following excerpt is from my essay "The White Gaze." This essay was presented at the Sixth International Conference on the Short Story in English, October 2000, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. "The White Gaze" Adobe PDF 39K POETRY "Remembering Flannery O'Connor" PDF 21K "Pretty White Child" Adobe PDF 42K "To My Quaker Grandmother" Adobe PDF 40K "Las Luces" Adobe PDF 28K SHORT STORY "Rush Limbaugh and the French Apple Pie " Adobe PDF 100K VIEWING THE EXCERPTS On most browsers, simply right click these links and select "Save Target As..." in order to save the file to your computer.