Read some of JEM’s previously published pieces:
Riverside Press-Enterprise (2022)
“Finding ‘home in your writing world is a personal journey”
Riverside Press Enterprise (2021)
“Balancing a creative life takes discipline and organization“
Al Jazeera
(March 12, 2020)
“US prisons are woefully unequipped to deal with Coronavirus“
The Dirty Spoon
(2019)
“Fast Food Memories“
Mutha Magazine
(2018)
“Stalling“
The Acentos Review
(February, 2013)
“Grandpa’s House“
Excerpt from “Grandpa’s House”
“We are on our way to Grandpa’s house. He lives by the cow farms in Norco. To get there, you have to take Euclid Avenue all the way south. It takes about an hour and I always get carsick from the winding road.
Annie tries to claim the front seat. She outruns me to my mom’s Pinto and puts her hand on the passenger door handle. She is only eight to our ten but she knows the rules. Oldest always gets the front seat unless you tag and call it. I am older than my twin Jackie by nine minutes and claim my birth right. From catechism, I know the story of Cain and Abel and that being first out means something.”