ABOUT
Mabel
I am a writer and creator.
For me, creating is right up there with breathing. I write stories, scribble poems, and doodle in my bullet journal. Plus…well, there’s no need to list everything.
These days I spend much of my time in my imagination, revising my novel-in-progress and exploring what it means to be yourself in a world that may not want you to be at all.
Novel in progress
JACQUARD’S FLIGHT
a young adult fantasy
All teen aerialist Jacquard wants is to fly in the bird act and keep her greenness secret. No one needs to find out she’s the dreaded Forest Demon. She doesn’t know her parents, her actual age, or why the trees that follow the circus cursed her, and only her, to turn green in the woods. Now trees are invading the circus ground and Jacquard’s monstrousness is becoming impossible to hide…
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Poetry
Watching the Oscars
published in
Little Patuxent Review
To the Poet—S. K.—
on Channel WNET-13
published in
Bourgeon
Factually
published in
Bourgeon