A Late Holiday Present
A Short Story for You!
Hey Substack Readers!
It’s blistery and cold with snow squalls here in New England today. A perfect day for reading and writing!
This week, we’re going to try something new. While this Substack typically shares tips on navigating our busy lives to make room for our dreams, today I’m going to share a short story I wrote 12 years ago instead . . .
I’ve been writing my entire life. In fact, even before I was old enough to put pen to paper, I’d pull a wooden chair up to the kitchen counter and record my stories onto my mother’s radio. She kept the radio on the counter to tape her favorite songs when they played (no Spotify back then). I still have the tapes today – me blabbering stories filled with fictional characters on wild adventures, somewhere between my mother’s early eighties recordings of DJ’s talking over the end of Madonna’s Borderline and Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA (Sorry Mom!)
Right now, I’m working on my next novel (A telepathic Po…
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