Short Stories
- “Remembering Joe,” Metonym Literary Journal, 2016
- “Their Pain,” Marathon Literary Review, 2021: http://marathonlitreview.com/2021/07/26/their-pain-erin-donoho/
- “Paradise,” Blue Lake Review, Sept./Oct. 2021: https://bluelakereview.weebly.com/paradise1.html
- “The Interview,” AZE Journal, 2021: https://azejournal.com/article/2021/9/4/the-interview
- “Red Valley,” Frontier Tales, June 2023: https://frontiertales.com/2023/06Jun/red_valley.php
- “How to Forgive,” The Bookends Review, Nov. 11, 2024: https://thebookendsreview.com/2024/11/11/how-to-forgive/
Poetry
- Breaking the Ice (poetry collection), Metonym Literary Journal, 2015
Novels
That Grand Illusion (2023)
A coming-of-age story of friendship and fear . . .
In 1979, crime and drug dealing continue to infiltrate North Sacramento. Meanwhile, the East Area Rapist continues terrorizing residents of Sacramento, and the police still don’t know who he is.
Shari Davis and her best friend Janet have longed and planned to escape for years, and now, with money saved from their first year of working, they finally can.
But the East Area Rapist is still on the loose, and every shadow makes Shari look over her shoulder. As she and Janet drive south along the coast, carrying eight-track tapes and revolvers, she can’t shake the feeling they’re being watched.
Maybe she can’t run from her fears after all.
Coyt Aldon’s Tips for Living (2024)
Between the suffocating heat, the alcoholic father he’s still stuck living with, the draft, a mediocre paycheck as a service station attendant, and helping his friends Jamie and Wes take care of their disabled sister Fay, Coyt Aldon is just trying to survive the summer of 1970. He’s sure things can’t get much worse. But when Fay goes missing—in none of her usual hiding places, not seen by anyone, nowhere—and stays missing, things take a serious nosedive.
Coyt hopes she’ll show up. He’s wrong again. Just like he’s wrong about being able to take on his old man. Because life is a crap shoot, and guys from their neighborhood always lose.
Fay’s disappearance is only the beginning of a journey, one that plunges the friends into the horrors of the justice system, social services, and ghosts of memories only Fay knows.
But Coyt and his friends are used to being shit on, and they don’t give up so easily.
A gritty story of found family, friendship, loss, and the treatment of the disabled.
Available as an ebook here.