Stories give shape to our lives. When we read or hear a story, we step outside of ourselves and experience the world, however briefly, through another person’s eyes. They are how we learn empathy. They are how we learn to listen.
I have loved stories all my life, told them, read them, heard them, believed or disbelieved them. As a child I started writing them down. I’ve never stopped. Every once in a great while, one of my stories has been published.
The first volume of my series, The Chronicles of Touperdu, set on the imaginary island of Touperdu, will be published by Sibylline Press in June 2026.
They Live in the City
Coyotes have practically become urban animals. I encountered one at dusk on Russian Hill last Christmas, loping towards me uphill on Mason Street. When it saw me it didn’t slow down, just veered gracefully around me and continued on its way. Foxes, too, live in the city, though they’re better at keeping out of sight,…
PLUR1BUS: A Story of Moral Attrition (And yes, there are spoilers.)
There are two major revelations at the end of Episode Six. The first is one that many viewers already suspected — the assimilated are subsisting on a liquid made, in part, from dead human bodies. The second is the logical outcome given that they cannot even kill plants. As the supplies of food dwindle, unreplenished…
Pam Troy 