♥ Susan Writes Across Genres ♥
Short Story Originally Published in Quality Women’s Fiction
CONTRAILS – Jean’s sister Erica, the one that wasn’t a nurse, but the one that was the oldest, called the doctors to demand home hospice care be provided for their dying father. Well, maybe that wasn’t a bad idea. But just as likely, it was an automatic “big-sister-in-charge” response. Erica earned her nickname in the family–Bossy the Cow–over the course of many years and many decisions. She was the person who made decisions all right, and everyone else be damned. Well, Erica called the whole family, issued a rallying cry for help, and Jean showed up.
Essay Sponsored by Townsend Press
ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT, originally titled Variations on a Theme, took second place in a national essay contest sponsored by Townsend Press. It was published by Swedenborg Foundation Press as part of the Chrysalis Reader series of anthologies. The anthology is It’s a Deal! Dynamic Transactions. Make further inquiries through www.swedenborg.com.
“Ta Matete” aka “The Market” by Paul Gauguin, appeared with the published essay.
Novel Published by Cawing Crow Press
SHE THOUGHT THE DOOR WAS LOCKED, Susan Martell Huebner’s novel, She Thought the Door was Locked, was released in 2017 by Cawing Crow Press. Available on AMAZON from CAWING CROW PRESS.
In She Thought the Door Was Locked, high school dropout and single mother Loosee Jeen struggles to learn how to balance her personal longings for intimacy with her determination to provide a good life for her toddler son, Trinket. She makes some poor decisions along the way; one in particular has almost fatal consequences for her, her son and her family.
Anthology Published by Wisconsin Poets
LEAVES OF PEACE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY, was released by Wisconsin Poets in 2020 and is a collection of works by poets of Wisconsin, with the theme of peace, including Susan’s poem, What You Will Notice First.
Poetry Chapbook Published by Finishing Line Press
REALITY CHANGES WITH THE WILLY NILLY WIND collects Susan’s poems of her mother’s journey into dementia.
Essay Published by Universal Table
BATTLE IN THE BURBS is an essay in Re-Creating Our Common Chord, a Wishing Up Anthology. How do we live out our commitment to the existentially equal value of those around us when we ourselves feel deeply devalued, feel our definition of the common good is unheard or denied? What do we do with our strong responses to the threat that devaluation poses—a threat our bodies and our hearts recognize even faster than our minds?