Laura Ruth Loomis's Blog: Lost and Found

Corrected link for Margaret's Confession:

https://writinginawomansvoice.blogspo...

Margaret's Confession
A teenage girl feeling guilty and missing the point.
https://writinginawomansvoice.blogspo...

Revenge of the Mercy Date.
With a title like that, do I even need to say what it's about?
http://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot...

These three are additional stories in the Lost in Translation series:

Found in Translation in Writer Advice
Boy meets boy. There are complications.
http://www.writeradvice.com/archive-w...

Not in This Life in On the Premises (pdf)
A psychiatrist learns just how much he can't heal.
http://onthepremises.com/wp-content/u...

Meeting Angel in Found
Facing her husband's betrayal was just the beginning.
http://www.echapbook.com/anthology/fo...

Why yes, I do have a weird fixation with reality TV!

The Venus Mysteria Show in Phone-Fiction
A suicidal ghost wants to get married on a talk show. What could go wrong?
http://www.phone-fiction.com/books/90...

The Hermes Springer Show on the Mona Schreiber Prize web site (scroll down)
Zeus and Hera decide to work out their differences in the most mature way possible. Probably this shouldn't have included Zeus's son from one of his affairs.
http://www.brashcyber.com/mona_2007.htm

The Water Is Wide in Phone-Fiction
A child is raised to believe he's a soldier in the coming "race war."
http://www.phone-fiction.com/books/54...

Repentance in On the Premises
When an all-powerful state tells you what you're allowed to believe, how do you hold onto the truth?
http://onthepremises.com/issues/issue...

The Red Dress in Phone-Fiction
All she wanted was one day that was Hers, and not His.
http://www.phone-fiction.com/books/72...

Suspicious Package in Gemini
If you see something, say something...or not.
http://www.gemini-magazine.com/loomis...

Rule Number Three in On the Premises (pdf)
A con man gets bored with playing motivational speaker, and decides to play cop.
http://onthepremises.com/wp-content/u...

Cecelia in Margin: Exploring Magical Realism
Her magic could heal others, but not her. Was that enough to live for?
http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/margin/L...

I've lived a fairly quiet life so far (knock on wood), but sometimes my fiction goes to some creepy places. Blame it on being a social worker.

Shocked in Writer Advice (scroll down)
With a cop's power comes great responsibility - especially when that power is several thousand volts.
http://www.writeradvice.com/archives/...

Notes to Self: One Week Out in Women on Writing
Her face is blurred out in all the news photos. But she still has to live inside this body.
http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/dow...

Here's the interview that went with that piece.
http://beforeitsnews.com/books/2016/0...

Ghost House in Prime Number
This one isn't fiction. It's about the decisions made by faraway corporations, and the devastating effect on someone in my neighborhood.
http://www.primenumbermagazine.com/Is...

Here's where to find one more story, and a little poetry, in dead-tree editions.

The Man Who Loved Dogs in Dia de Los Muertos: a Day of the Dead Anthology
https://www.amazon.com/Dia-Muertos-An...

Social Workaholic in Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workplace
https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Lilly-...

Second Mother and The Son in Family Matters: Poems of Our Families
https://www.amazon.com/Family-Matters...

Mirror Poem and Moment in Queer Collection 2007
https://www.amazon.com/Queer-Collecti...

Personal Ad and A Word About Monogamy in What I Want From You
https://www.amazon.com/What-Want-You-...