Books and Short Stories

Memories are open to interpretation, just like the best stories...

From eastern Europe to the Pacific Northwest, this collection explores the complicated and often contradictory dreams and desires of women of all ages and the role that memory plays throughout our lives.

A daughter returns to the island where her mother disappeared, searching the dark waters for a creature that promises oblivion just beyond the shore. In a war-torn village nestled in the Tatra Mountains, a mother's strength falters during labor and the mountains answer her cries for help. The Old West town of Carbondale is known for two things: its prostitutes and the herd of Painted Ponies whose hooves dance across the desert floor under the light of the moon. A young girl summons a demon to help her escape the trailer park where she lives in neglect. Walnuts harvested from a churchyard tree and baked into bread summon memories-and nightmares-of lost loved ones. A sapling travels along the Oregon Trail with a young bride, witnessing her happiness and heartbreak as the journey brings her farther from home and closer to her true strength. An Alzheimer's treatment brings back memories of a woman's past and future lives. Readers will find themselves sinking deeply into the sumptuous, magical realism of Beechwood's stories, only to surface again at the last page, wondering "Was it all a dream?"

My short fiction

  • You Always Have a Choice, my short story about a Rusalka who sheds her tail for legs, is included in the Horrors of the Deep anthology of startling sea stories. This is a great anthology put out by Rogue Owl Press and I’m thrilled to have had another story, Invasive Species, coming out in their future anthology.

  • Jane Austen in the Beaverton Library was included in the Discover Beaverton anthology by Lucky Jefferson with support from the City of Beaverton Arts Program.

  • Just Beyond the Shore was included in Nightscape Press’s NOX PAREIDOLIA anthology. This anthology won the 2019 This is Horror Award for Best Anthology! You can purchase your copy at Amazon.

  • No time to read a short story? That’s okay – Yes, Yes, Yes, We Remember was released as a podcast by Third Flatiron! Listen to it for free here.

  • Yes, Yes, Yes, We Remember was published in Hidden Histories by Third Flatiron in April 2019. You can purchase your copy at Amazon.

  • The Painted Ponies of Wiley Creek is included in Strongly Worded Women: The Best of the Year of Publishing Women: An Anthology. You can purchase your copy at Powell’s City of Books or Amazon.