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.

"The Painted Desert" - new short story

 An older woman recounts a mystical trip she took to the Painted Desert in Arizona in the 1930s.

"New York City" - a new short story

 One winter in New York, the mysterious falling of a man off a subway platform disturbs Luka.

Publication of new brief memoir - "It's Only Rock & Roll"

ReadWrite Strategies Workplace Anthology Contest recently awarded me publication of my essay "It's Only Rock & Roll" in spring 2024, a story about working at a travel agency in the music business.

Fresh Words to publish short play ELEANOR

Fresh Words is issuing a new anthology, HELLO GODOT! (VOLUME-5), in which my short comedy ELEANOR appears.

Edith Wharton monologue published

 Venus Theatre has just published my monologue The Beauty of the Dado: A Monologue for Edith Wharton, in an anthology from Palmetto Press.

New essay on writing titled "Cutting Words" to be published

Teach. Write.: A Writing Teachers’ Literary Journal will publish my essay "Cutting Words" this fall.

New poem about refugees to be published - "Beautiful Lady"

 Clepsydra Art & Literary Magazine is publishing my short poem about Mexican refugees this summer - titled "Beautiful Lady."

New short children's story - "CHRISTMAS CLOVER"

Buster Bunny is disappointed and tells his mother that Betty Bunny, whom he wants as a romantic pal, didn't bring him a stalk of clover for Christmas.

New essay - "A Manhattan Residence"

A memoir of the colorful and inexpensive residential hotel the author lived in, in New York City, in the 1980s.

New publication scheduled - "The Medieval Doctor"

The literary journal Masque & Spectacle will publish my short period drama, "The Medieval Doctor" - a script about venereal disease.

New short story - "Three Odd Travelers"

Slipstream/fantasy short work of fiction: Queen Elizabeth I and playwrights William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe take a journey to Paris by horse-drawn carriage, and are accosted by a thief.

2 new essays published

Just had a short article, on the subject of the craft of writing for theatre, published in June by Unleash's Substack -- here it is:  https://www.unleashlit.com/p/writing-for-the-stage

Also, my long essay on the joys of cigarette smoking ("On Quitting the Habit") was published by The Courtship of Winds this month...  Here's the essay: https://www.thecourtshipofwinds.org/martha-patterson 

Monologue THE HELL OF A GLUTTON to be published

 Literature Today (a journal) will publish my short comic monologue THE HELL OF A GLUTTON in April.

SYNOPSIS: Bob, an unhappy telemarketer who sells swimming pools, has recently lost a lot of weight and recounts his journey to being thin again.