More Mileage
Carrie has started taking Taekwondo-classes but is kicked to the floor again and again.
January 15, 2023
CARRIE
Not To Tell Another Lie
Carrie gives up her ‘passion business’, but what should she do instead?
May 28, 2021
One Step Closer
A rehablitated drug addict is offered 100,000 dollars from an obscure religious organization to ‘change her life’.
April 5, 2019
Hello And Welcome
A story about how to welcome those broken dreams of ever becoming an artist.
December 16, 2018
Sparkles In The Rain
Carrie tries to discuss some of her personal problems with her estranged father – perhaps too early.
July 22, 2017
The Inside That I Carve
During her dead-end cleaning job at the nursing home, Carrie struggles with anxiety about not being able to break free.
July 13, 2017
Ghost Hearts
Carrie finds an article about new quantum physics and the theory of ‘ghost universes’. Even though she knows it is no good, she begins to obsess about the idea that her dead friend, Lin, may be alive in such a ghost universe.
February 20, 2016
Pirañas Under Our Feet
Returning to Bolivia after 15 years, Carrie finds out that an old friendship perhaps never was what she imagined it to be.
November 22, 2014
Ancient Melodies
Are you meant not to be friends with some people, even though you feel you have a strange connection?
October 4, 2013
When Everything Was True
A holiday trip becomes a trying journey for everyone – with or without autism.
April 27, 2013
The Cold Has A Voice
Sometimes we connect the strangest memories to people we have lost. That makes them no less beautiful.
March 7, 2012
Like Grace From The Earth
On a bus-ride, Carrie befriends Anna, an elderly photographer. Carrie has a family now but is not happy. She wonders if she can live what she has left of her life without trying once more to realize her old dreams of becoming an artist herself.
May 22, 2011
When The Moment Arrives
What happens when you are waiting at the airport to meet an old friend after 16 years but is not sure you can forgive her for staying out of touch for so long?
November 7, 2010
Scars of Our Civil Wars
Carrie becomes obsessed with finding out the fate of one Anna Lee Shepherd – a teenage survivor from a destructive Civil War raid.
April 23, 2004
Portrait of a Killer
Carrie has finally ditched both drugs and her violent boyfriend. Is it time to get rid of her gun, too?
February 13, 2004
Shadows In The Shape Of Men
In a boarding house on the Pacific Coast, Carrie meets a potential new friend whose scars may rival her own.
December 7, 2003
That Which Cannot Be Broken
When Carrie is a witness to bikers assaulting a man, she has to make yet another choice about life or death.
September 7, 2003
A Letter For My Daughter
Going cold turkey in a lonely motel room, trying to rid herself of cocaine addiction, Carrie writes a letter to the daughter she does not yet have.
June 12, 2003
That Imaginary Desert
Carrie chats with her stepbrother about choosing between war or peace, in the family and elsewhere.
May 9, 2001
The One I Tried to Destroy
Ending up in Buenos Aires, Carrie befriends a Falklands War-veteran who turns out to have a dark side.
May 7, 2001
The Morning After
Carrie is stranded at the Santa Cruz airport in Bolivia waiting for someone who may never come
April 28, 2001
Until You See the Signs
A story about the way we often say goodbye to past relationships.
April 14, 2001
The Halo Of Our Souls
In a Bolivian market, Carrie helps a lost little boy search for his mother, with some unexpected consequences.
July 14, 2000
New Year’s Day
Carrie meets Jacob from Israel who is slated to go to prison when he returns, for refusing military duty. It seems there is no way out. They try to find one anyway.
June 29, 2000
Islands in the Mind
Meeting the perfect traveling companion is sometimes reason to leave as soon as you can.
June 28, 2000
The Division of Lima
Carrie has traveled all the way to Lima in Peru but has not escaped her grief. She wonders how to find the strength to go on.
May 26, 2000
Roads To Leave By
Carrie’s friend, Nadine, tries to stop Carrie from traveling to South America with no plan to ever come back.
April 10, 2000
Like Blood In A Darkroom
Carrie, Lin, Lars and Alan all meet to celebrate New Year’s Eve in an isolated holiday house half a year after high school.
December 1, 1997
The Things We Find Behind The Door
Carrie has to decide if she wants to keep living with Lin.
September 13, 1997
The Tone Which Is Not Played
A wild weekend has the prospect of derailing Carrie and Alan’s lives forever …
December 21, 1996
All I Wanna Say IS
It feels wonderful to explore mutual dreams for making it as an artist. Sometimes you just have to agree where the dreams end.
March 9, 1996
In the Eye of the Storm
What are the options to save your best friend from a broken home?
February 20, 1996
Strangers In Moscow
Lin offers to use her inheritance to buy Carrie a condo, so Carrie can get away from living with her mother in a cramped two-roomer. But can you say yes to such a gift from someone you only just met?
December 21, 1995
Boats Against The Current
What would you do if you had ruined the first meeting with someone who could have been your best friend?
December 15, 1995
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