2018
“Sisters Before We Knew It.” A short story in Redemption: Stories from the Edge. Redwood Writers 2018 Anthology. Available on Amazon.
“Sisters Before We Knew It” is a short story about Elaine’s #metoo experience at work. She discovers the same man had sexually assaulted other woman in the company. She rallies a group of the secretarial staff to support her claim and report to personnel, ultimately ending the sexual harassment.
“El Diablo.” A poem in PHOENIX: Out of Silence…And Then. Redwood Writers 2018 Poetry Anthology. Available on Amazon.com
“El Diablo” chronicles Elaine’s near miss with a destructive dust devil twister on the highway in California’s Central Valley.
2017
“History in Our Midst.” Story in SONOMA: Stories of a Region and its People. Redwood Writers 2017 Anthology. Available on Amazon.com
Elaine’s short story highlights the life of Sonoma County resident Barbara “Dusty” Roads and how she became known as the one who ignited the Second Wave of the Women’s Liberation Movement. As an American Airlines stewardess and airline industry union negotiator and legislative lobbyist to Congress, Dusty fought regulations prohibiting marriage and requiring the firing of stewardesses at age thirty-two. It was a 15-year struggle during which Dusty and her colleague, Jean Montague, became the first in the United States to file a sexual discrimination complaint with the EEOC after Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Workplace discrimination in the airline industry would not begin to be resolved until Dusty and her union threatened a national strike in 1968.