FORTHCOMING SHORT FICTION
Thrilled to have two new stories slated for publication in 2027: “The New Boy” in Chicago Quarterly Review and “The Mother Had a Shop” in Santa Monica Review.
OLD(er) WORK
Wherever possible, I’ve provided links to online publication or to PDFs. In some cases, only the first few pages could be reproduced here; contact the publication to read more.
Short fiction
“Foragers” appeared in Bright Flash Literary Review September 2022 (scroll down to see story).
“The Ruins” was selected by Word for Word for their first “Exactly!” They Said celebration of short stories by California writers and performed on stage in November 2019. The Story originally appeared in Arroyo Literary Review and was cited in a Writer’s Digest article about using POV to frame stronger scenes.
“Those Two,” a Pushcart Prize nominee, published in Cimarron Review‘s Golden Jubilee issue.
“The Task at Hand” appeared in the Mississippi Review Prize 2017 issue.
“Plenty & Wonder” named an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train‘s Family Matters contest.
“The Pattern Beneath” was published on Compose (2016),
Ten of Lindsey’s stories are now available as audiobooks.
Lindsey’s story “Moles” found a home in Pisgah Review (2013).
“The Art of Fiction.” Bellingham Review. This one was a lot of fun to write, while blocked on my novel at Ragdale. I just started writing down all those writing “rules,” and then… Listen to the story here.
“Like This” appeared in a “siblings” issue of On the Page in 2001.
“Impact of Geography.” Santa Monica Review. If you think you know California and haven’t gotten lost driving the levees of the Sacramento/San Joaquin delta, think again.
Away from Trees. Quarterly West. Winner of the Writers@Work Fellowship 1996. This one is in my story collection and available as an audiobook.
“Bees for Honey.” River City. My first published story. And my first workshopped-in-grad-school story. While much changed between the two, the first few pages didn’t. You can read the rest in The View from Below Or listen here.
Personal Esssays/Articles
Eternally grateful to Cimarron Review for publishing my essay about unopened boxes, family secrets, and the uncle I never knew.
“Pool of Memories” in The Best American Women’s Travel Writing, volume 11, edited by the wonderful Lavinia Spalding. Available as a podcast on There She Goes.
I Made Peace with Never Having a Child of My Own. Then I Fell in Love at 47. On the Washington Post website.
Lindsey gets in hot water to explore the blissful and spiritual power of hot springs.
Lindsey explores when our beliefs differ and looks at what makes a good death: two different pieces for Spirituality & Health in 2013.
Lindsey visits a group of lifers at San Quentin, and writes about it in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine.
Debriefing on the cult of clutter, in The New York Times
“How to Pray.” Real Simple took it, Reader’s Digest reprinted it, Lindsey got a lot of mail.
This one was chosen for Best American Spiritual Writing, after first appearing in Image.
On inviting a man into my kitchen too soon, in Bon Appétit.
My earliest personal essays appeared in late 1990s, in the East Bay Express, when I worked there as a freelance editor. I’ll always be thankful to the wonderful editors and staff there, who supported my writing on everything from the swimming pools of the East Bay to the pain of Thanksgiving when you have an addict in the family and the surprising joys of teaching high school.
