SHORT WORKS


FICTION

A Wedding Story

Narrative Magazine

Rachel didn't have any memory of chocolate eggs but here was one now.

I Should Let You Go

Freight Stories

And what had the cousins expected, back when they agreed to put Vaclav Havel's press secretary up for a month?

The Ghost of Bridgetown

Ploughshares

He was an unlikely, sunburnt ghost, white-teethed and island bred.

Lady of the Wild Beasts

Ploughshares

The cartoon men got up off the page, shimmied down a table leg, and bused her cafeteria tray for her.

The Revived Art of the Toy Theatre

Agni

Sometime during the night of December 2, an intruder entered the Theatrical Print Warehouse.


ESSAYS

Last Things

Ploughshares

Cyndy died of breast cancer at age twenty-six, a fact which I find unbelievable.

Lure of the West

Ploughshares

The landscape of my imagination is inevitably that of the West.

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{Excerpt from work-in-progress}

When I see two middle-aged women out for a walk, my heart tightens with jealousy. I know what they're doing, after all. They're talking about sex.


For a comprehensive list of Debra Spark’s fiction and essay publications, please see her curriculum vitae.

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