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Fiction Portfolio

The Goddess in Him, NewMyths.com, September 2020 (forthcoming)

The Pilgrim’s Yoke, Bards & Sages Quarterly, October 2018

In the Ruins of Shambhala, 600 Second Saga, August 2017

Bloody Caesar, SPACE (Sciences Participating with the Arts and Culture in Education), September 2011

 

(See my official nonfiction portfolio too.)

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