Sea Change

MY NEW BOOK! Sea Change: stories & splashes

In the style of Sandra Cisneros, Elizabeth von Arnim, Raymond Carver, Jill A. Davis, and Robin Sloan, this collection features 42 short and flash fictions interspersed with colorful abstract expressionist paintings. Here’s an excerpt from “Unlikely:”

We were an unlikely pair: a white girl still in high school, and a chicano man, just out. My brothers didn’t know what I saw in her, teased me about La Blondie.

But she could drive.

I had a little MG I’d been fixing up. She had her license, drove a stick, drag-raced the boys in the ‘hood, usually won.

She was pretty, I’ll give you that: blonde hair, blue eyes. She and her best friend, Geena, insisted they shared the same father. Lotta people bought it, “Yeah,” they’d say, “I can see the resemblance.” But I never fell for it. Geena had straight brown hair down to her ass, and a square face. Susan’s hair was curly, and she was taller, with a heart-shaped face. She turned up in cornrows once, which looked ridiculous. “10?” I asked, and she frowned.

But she could drive. Fast.

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