Laureen Bennefield: 4 books

Norman is off to college to get an education—so be it. He's also asleep—he just doesn't know it—and his wake up call doesn't care that she's invisible to this skinny, white boy with the red crop of hair. The one who's still pissed about not getting a rabbit when he was a kid. This is...

There's a new woman in town and she's really shaking things up: some people want her gone, some want her dead, and one man can't get her out of his head. It's time to pay the piper, make amends, and lose those quiet colours. It's time to live and love, again. *"You probably know this,...

. . . remembering, The Smell of Giraffes, is a story about overcoming—in the face of cancer, death, and sadness. But, more importantly, it's a story about remembering hope, laughter, and love. And that you are more than your body parts, more than a sad story somebody will retell someday, more than...

The difference between being cheeky and proclaiming to the world that you're **NOT **your mother's daughter when you're a twenty-something adult, and feeling that way when you're eleven is staggering. It swallows you up like a gigantic sink hole.  This short fiction story is about finding...