cover excerpt from a short story The Hanging

The Hanging

This story was originally published in Southwest Review, then a later version was published in the anthology Appalachia Now.

Entranced

Here is the publisher-deleted prologue from Sufficient Grace, a novel about several things, including the impact of the principal character’s late-onset schizophrenia.

When I Started
to Cry

This essay is published by Blackbird, a literary journal of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Photograph of William Brock on horseback

Signs and Wonders

This essay about the cosmic nature of my midlife-to-later-life romance was published in NC State Magazine in 2006.

Excerpts from Relict, a poetry manuscript in progress