I’m happy to announce that my short story, “A Mule of One’s Own,” will be published in Orca (2020, Issue #3). Here’s the log line: “A Mule of One’s Own” is about a pack horse librarian who delivers books and hope to Kentucky’s rural families in the Depression while her own family falls apart because her job threatens her unemployed husband. Here’s the history behind the story: In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) funded local women to serve as “equestrienne librarians,” visiting isolated families in Kentucky’s remote hills. The women traveled miles through rutted, icy, and muddy trails to teach children and adults to read, and deliver books, magazines, and other materials, in hopes they’d have a better chance of finding employment when the economy recovered. Read more in SHORT STORIES.
