it was a dream, or I actually won NPR's "Three-Minute Fiction" contest

I think it's true, because there's my picture, lower left (taken by my very patient friend Koren Cranford). I'm as surprised as anybody, but so honored to have been chosen. Grateful to Guy Raz and everyone at NPR, to novelist and contest judge Mona Simpson, and to the creative writing students who read and selected my story. Also very grateful to my writing gurus for showing me how it's done (and for encouraging me to keep at it), as well as my family/friends for helping me hone my voicemail skills. Definitely what my cousin Kate would call a "lifestamp" moment.

Link to story on NPR, "Sorry For Your Loss"

Link to front page Charlotte Observer 3/18/13 (by Pam Kelley)

Link to Creative Loafing article 3/21/13 (by Natalie Joy Howard)