Trepidatious Hangout of Poet/Fiction Writer

and Digital Artist

Welcome to the alleys of my soul........

Allow me to introduce myself; I dream, observe, listen, taste, feel, participate, sniff, cry, laugh, scream......and then, I create.

I am a member of Horror Writers Association, Garden State Horror Writers and the Chiaroscuro. By day, I am a Certified Veterinary Technician in a 24-hour emergency animal hospital. My husband, Randy, two wolf hybrids, Schultz and Fenris, and I live in a damp, moldy alley in the Pacific Northwest.

Updated 01/21/02

I've made it to the Preditors and Editors Readers' Poll ballot for

Poet Published in 2001. To check it out (and perhaps vote!) go to www.critters.org/predpoll

before January 31st.

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My digital art, poetry and prose can be enjoyed in

the Garden State Horror Writers' brand new

CD collection, In A Fearful State. Order information

is available at the GSHW site.

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Shikhar Dixit and I have sold our first collaborative effort

in a short story entitled "The Celestial Eye". It will appear in

the October 2002 issue of Underworlds.

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DNA Publications has chosen my poem "Understudy" for

inclusion in a Best Of Dreams of Decadence compilation to be

published by ROC Books. The poem appeared in DofD's Spring 1998 issue

with two others as part of the Featured Poet section.

There exist dark alleys of

the city...the mind...the soul.

Explore any with caution,

ever aware that what lurks

in the shadows might not be

just your imagination.

Who's to say that dark alleys

in the city are different

from those of less tangible,

more ethereal places?

Creatures scavenge, garbage rots,

every step is uncertain.

Every mortal fears dark alleys,

wherever they may be located,

whatever they may be comprised,

whomever may dwell there.

Why they exist is the real question,

the puzzle that plagues.

Do we need adrenaline rushes?

to have our blood run cold?

quick glimpses of evil?

a chance to scream?

Yes. Yes, we do.

Published in Vortex of the Macabre, March 1999