Life Lines is my debut collection of short stories. Volume I was published by Lila House Press in September 2023, Volume II was published on May 1, 2025.
Life Lines may be long or short, but they always intersect. They reveal our unique differences while exposing our parallel lives with others. This collection of heartfelt stories explores the inextricable ties we have with people and place, and how these relationships shape us, carry us, and determine the storyline of our lives.
Meet yourself in characters from diverse backgrounds navigating unexpected life events and relationships that require thoughtful consideration and careful action, laying bare the emotional human experience; loneliness and exclusion, introspection and agency, the precarious nature of being, identity, gratitude, transcendence, and resolution. Available for purchase at Amazon.com in paperback and eBook.
This collection is a continued exploration of what brings us together, keeps us connected, or lets us go. Like a kite in the wind, we remain grounded or in flight, with the guidance of another or through our own intuitive inclinations. What once carried us can change, depending on the direction of the wind.
Meet yourself in characters who define family in broad terms, from birthright to accidental encounter, in stories that explore the expectations of choice and destiny. In these 12 tales, storylines and characterizations overlap and commingle in both subtle and obvious parlance, finding the common ground we share with others in this fleeting dance of life. For what is family, but one precious soul fastening onto another, navigating together the vast expanse of the human experience. Within that space, we are all kin. Available for purchase at Amazon.com in paperback and eBook.
mary corbin 