My poor, neglected author blog! Here are a very few highlights from the past decade, available online:
Soft Target, new fiction published in 2023 at “Wrath-bearing Tree”, was inspired by the 2018 story of a school district arming its classrooms with buckets of rocks in case of a school invasion. You can read it as dark and dystopian, or as a sweet story about inclusion. Please know that my own daughters attend a lovely, inclusive, public elementary school where everyone is doing their best to include my daughter with Down syndrome and protect all kids from harm.
A few items in the Center for Mennonite Writing Journal: “Wives Like Us” (2019) inverts the Good Wife passage of Proverbs 31. “Woman Build of Stones: A Mother Tries to Write” (2023) gives a hint about where I’ve been all this time. And while we’re at the CMWJ, I’m not sure I ever posted this issue on Embodiment that I co-edited with the Shenandoah Valley Inkslingers in 2012. That’s not so long ago, is it?
For your patience, here’s a chicken!
Kirsten Eve Beachy 