Summer is Over
The summer is over. It sure does not feel like it is in some places, but the calendar does not lie in this matter. In this blog, I will display four more stories and another chapter of my book. The school year is just getting started and I am looking forward to what lies ahead. I have included a picture of my classroom to remind me of the job I get paid to do. I am entering year seven at this school after putting in eight years at Cactus Canyon in Apache Junction. Every year is full of promise as the season changes from the warm (hot) days of summer to a cooler autumn season. Having grown up in upstate New York, I am used to the colors of the leaves change as the nighttime temperatures drop.
- Count Massey: Accepted by Reedsy August 2023. George Bryce works at the Cascade Arms in South Chicago where he meets a resident once known as Count Massey who ruled the Cotton Club back in New York City during the depression. George's grandfather had told him stories of his day at the Cotton Club as a bus boy and realizes through these accounts that history is not always recounted the way it was recorded.
- Post Office at the End of the World: Accepted by Reedsy in August 2023: Richard is given a new assignment to the Post Office at the end of the World and with this he discovered he is also at the very edge of his sanity. Will he be able to endure?
- I and I accepted by Reedsy in September 2023: Rogan Cooper has a problem. There is someone he keeps seeing that looks just like him. He discusses this with his therapist Damon, but he keeps seeing this person. After a terrible accident that takes the life of Damon his therapist, Rogan confronts his look-alike and finds out this man is really him living a day ahead. The strange ending will leave you wondering what might be possible.
- Vacationing in the Poconos, accepted this week by Reedsy: Arturo Barcelli recounts his vacation as a thirteen year old boy in the Poconos on Lake Harmony when he discovers his father is a hit man for the Mafia. This discovery changes the trajectory of his life when his father disappears.
- Chapter Sixteen from my book The Woman Who Made Tin Faces: There is a grande parade celebrating the great victory of the Great War. There is a new wave of patriotism sweeping the country, but there are many who feel that their lives were bartered in the process.
