"THE TRADE"
Footnote: A Literary Journal of History
Forthcoming (2024)
November 2023
The shore was the briny backwater of the Virginia Colony, Boyse had said, a strip of land that separated the great Chesapeake Bay from the vast yawn of the Atlantic, with acres and acres of tobacco fields cut up by mosquito-infested swamps. It was choked with English ambition and dangerous savages and was certainly no place for a boy like Garret, who seemed a good lad.
"PUNGOTEAGUE, 1652"
North American Review: Open Space
Forthcoming (Fall 2024)
For a few moments he stood staring at the blaze, reveling in his ability to choose to do nothing while his own farm burned to the ground before him. Was that not glorious? He did not even feel the cold.
"Foxhunting Ettiquette"
Crux Literary Magazine
2003
Don’t let your horse eat the farmers’ crops. Don’t trample the farmers’ crops. Don’t trample the hounds. And they’re not dogs, either. A hound is a hound and should never be called anything else.
Molly writes historical fiction inspired by little-known but fascinating figures from the past.
In 2003, as she was graduating college, she published her first story in Crux Literary Magazine. Now she is returning to writing after a 20-year career designing award-winning technologies for the U.S. Foreign Service and four Secretaries of State.
Currently, Molly teaches digital design at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she is also pursuing an MFA in creative writing. She has an MA from Georgetown University, and a BA in English Language and Literature from The Catholic University of America in Washington DC.
Molly is writing a novel about the fiercely independent and unmarried young mother who, in the 1660s, became entangled with the most notorious man in Virginia, built her own trading empire, and grew to be the richest woman on the eastern shore, before nearly losing everything.
Molly writes historical fiction inspired by little-known but fascinating figures from the past.
In 2003, as she was graduating college, she published her first story in Crux Literary Magazine. Now she is returning to writing after a 20-year career designing award-winning technologies for the U.S. Foreign Service and four Secretaries of State.
Currently, Molly teaches digital design at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she is also pursuing an MFA in creative writing. She has an MA from Georgetown University, and a BA in English Language and Literature from The Catholic University of America in Washington DC.
Molly is writing a novel about the fiercely independent and unmarried young mother who, in the 1660s, became entangled with the most notorious man in Virginia, built her own trading empire, and grew to be the richest woman on the eastern shore, before nearly losing everything.