Short noir play A WOMAN IN NEED to be produced

 The Firehouse Center for the Arts, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, will produce my short detective-noir play A WOMAN IN NEED in their New Works Festival on Jan, 18th & 19th, 2025.

"Yankee Memories" to be published -- essay on food & place

 My essay "Yankee Memories," about my grandmother's southern Maine farmhouse and her cooking, will be published in the inaugural issue of Al Dente magazine this winter.

New children's story to be published -- "Christmas Clover"

Just got word that my little story "Christmas Clover," about a bunny rabbit, is being published on Christmas Day by The League of Poets in their "Evergreen Wishes Anthology."

A VALENTINE'S DAY GIFT being published - new short story

 A new short story in which a fumbling book-lover makes a gift of Thoreau's Walden to a reluctant librarian,  Dragon Soul Press will publish it in its "Be Mine" anthology in February 2025.

TRIBUTE TO BOSTON - a 2-page essay

 A brief socio-political essay on the many charms of the City of Boston.

THE MAGIC COIN, new fantasy story

 A mermaid helps a poor young boy by giving him some buried treasure.

FORBIDDEN FRUIT - new flash fiction story

 In the 1920s, an arrogant man decides not to enjoy the sexual favors of his honest maid.