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My short story, “Her Mother’s Playlist,” won Best Prose Award in the Red Clay Review literary and arts magazine contest. The issue’s theme was music and this story is told from the point-of-view of a teenager dealing with her mother’s mental health issues and the role music plays in their lives.
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My short story, “Awakenings,” was published in Boundless, An Anthology of Prose . The editor, David G. Collins wrote this description of my story in his introduction: In “Awakenings” Linda Johnson asks “What would happen if a middle-aged man, seemingly happy in his marriage but uncomfortable for years in his male body, decided one day to take action and shared the news with his wife and family?” The result is a tender account of a man and a woman, their son and daughter, struggling as they awaken in so many