Contemporary literary short fiction
Stories that speak straight to the reader — secrets untold, truths uncovered.
New collection: Despite Truth — six luminous stories set in the village of Despite, Quebec, where magic unmasks mystery.
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Where magic unmasks mystery
In Despite, Quebec, the truth refuses to stay hidden. A tree keeps watch over a silence no one else can hear. A hunter wears her nine-point buck over her heart. A girl tastes the colour of every word. A water healer listens for secrets in the River. A blue Pit Bull named Bullet knows more than any witness should.
Six luminous stories told by narrators who speak straight to the reader — with humour, candor, and a touch of the impossible.
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Be first to knowStories of love, longing & movin’ on
Nine stories of decisions and deeds, thoughts and inner voices — the secrets people normally keep to themselves, revealed with humour and candor.
A single mom offers simultaneous translations of her true feelings. A woman runs away with a cowboy and learns her own secrets through her infidelity. A friendship outlives death. A long marriage stays crazy in love.
Stories you’ll read in one sitting and think about for days.
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A series of stand-alone short stories showing the blurred lines between perception and reality — between author and narrator.
The world has gone silent, and a young woman is watching humanity disappear — until her own skin begins to harden. Sometimes what we shed reveals what we truly are underneath.
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When “carcinoma” appears on her test results, she has something cancer can’t kill: a dark sense of humour and a refusal to play the grateful patient. Some stalkers can’t be shaken.
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Apartment 806 is watching her neighbour vanish in plain sight — until a body is pulled from the canal, and tolerance becomes guilt. Disappearing doesn’t always happen naturally.
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“When I write, I ignore the boundaries between storyteller and reader. My stories unfold as intimate conversations — one voice speaking to one listener.”
Sometimes Lisa is present as the author; other times the narrator or a character takes over. It isn’t a calculated technique — it’s simply the way stories come through her, crossing the invisible barriers that typically separate fiction from its audience.
She trusts her readers: they possess an intuition for distinguishing between fabrication and truth, between a clever tale and something real. That awareness shapes every sentence she writes.
Over the past thirty years her stories have appeared in numerous literary publications. She is at work on her first novel — a story of betrayal that also takes place in Despite.
Interview
Lisa talks short story writing with Calvin Schwartz — her first-ever interview, and with one of the best.
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My Stalker was featured among five emotionally driven fiction titles for 2026: “raw, unfiltered, and unapologetically honest.”
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Lisa recently presented on short story writing to the Suncoast Writers Guild. If your group would enjoy a talk, she’d be happy to come.
Invite LisaBefore self-publishing, Lisa’s stories found homes in literary magazines — back when submissions went by mail and answers took a year. Most of these stories now live in Secrets Untold.
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