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Duped and Dumped Flash Essay
Dorothy Parker's Ashes
April 2025
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Horse Story Flash CNN
Does It Have Pockets (2nd story)
November 15, 2024
This memoir excerpt won second prize in the 2024 Pocket Change Creative Nonfiction Competition sponsored by the literary journal, Does It Have Pockets?
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Rumi's Field Poem
Only Poems 
June 28, 2024
​My poem, “Rumi’s Field” was selected from 417 poems as the June Poem of the Month at Only Poems, an online literary journal. The theme was “Spiritual” poems.
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Fever Dreams Flash Essay
Dorothy Parker's Ashes 
April 23, 2024
​“Fever Dreams” was renamed from “Polio and Other Family Afflictions,” which received honorable mention in the Wow! Women on Writing Q1 Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest.
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Alicante 100-word story
Five Minutes 
​March 8, 2024
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Dandelions 100-word story
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock Your Socks Off Art & Literature 
​February 1, 2024
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Susan’s Comet Microfiction
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock Your Socks Off Art & Literature 
​February 1, 2024
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Bad Genes 100-word story 
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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock Your Socks Off Art & Literature 
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January 1, 2024
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Spy 100-word story 
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock Your Socks Off Art & Literature 
January 1, 2024
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Plucked 50-word story
The Dribble Drabble Review
October 2023, Issue 8
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Cigarettes 100-word story 
The Dribble Drabble Review
October 2023
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Planted Flash Essay
Does It Have Pockets? 
​August 1, 2023
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Ghost of Christmas Past 
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Flash Essay
Does It Have Pockets? 
​August 1, 2023 - scroll down page
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God of the Cornfield
100-word story
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock Your Socks Off Art & Literature 
​May 2023, Issue 18
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A Couple of Queens
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100-word story
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock Your Socks Off Art & Literature
​May 2023, Issue 18
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The Ugliest Thing I’d Ever Seen
100-word story 
The Dribble Drabble Review
Spring 2023
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The Magician Flash Essay
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock Your Socks Off Art & Literature
​April 2023, Issue 18
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Scary Thrills 100-word story
Friday Flash Fiction
November 18, 2022
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Letter to Isadora Duncan
100-word story
The Dribble Drabble Review
Fall 2022, Issue VI
Nominated for the 2023 Best Microfiction Anthology
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Confirmation 100-word story
The Drabble 
​October 21, 2022

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Operations Manager
100-word story 
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Friday Flash Fiction
​September 9, 2022

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Use Everything That Shows Up Feature article
​Conscious Connection Cultural Creative Magazine
​ June 14, 2021
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Stories That Create Suffering Feature article
Women Writers, Women[‘s] Books
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 June 1, 2021
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 Inner Wisdom Vs. Your Overactive Mind 
Feature article
Authority Magazine
April 22, 2021
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The Dragon at The Gate
An edited excerpt from Raw: My Journey from Anxiety to Joy
Women Writers, Women[‘s] Books
July 29, 2018
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A Letter to My Daughter
Prose Poem
Lilith
​Winter 2012-13, Lilith Publications, NYC
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Fast Talk Fiction
​​The Sun Magazine
April 2007, Issue #376
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Anatomy Lesson
Personal Essay
The Sun Magazine
May 1994 
These journals published Bella’s poetry in the 1990s.
​Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women; Earth’s Daughters; Literary Mama; On the Bus; Pearl; Sheila-Na-Gig; Tsunami; Two Review.
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Receive over 80 writing prompts from Where Do You Hang Your Hammock? to ignite your creativity, gain clarity, and reach your personal and professional goals! You'll also receive my monthly inspirational Substack newsletter, Flying Lessons for Writers.
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“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.”   
​—Leonardo da Vinci
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