SHORT STORIES AND WORKS IN PROGRESS

Over the years, I’ve written several short stories that have been broadcast on WHAV 97.9 FM, Public Radio, Haverhill, MA. These stories are written for each month of the year. For example, The Night the Wolves Came to Christmas is a tale told to me by my grandmother about her experience on Christmas, living in rural Germany as a little girl in the nineteenth century. Despite the title, I promise it is an uplifting tale, and my family enjoys reading it every Christmas Eve. The Cannoneers is a New Year’s story about a cannon and whiskey. What could possibly go wrong? You can check when these and other stories are being broadcast by consulting the schedule on the WHAV website. The stories are usually aired on Friday and Saturday of the third week of the month. 

Being a pilot, I have a deep interest in aviation history and am working on two series. The first, “Touching the Face of God”, tells the story of a German boy growing up before World War I and follows him through both world wars as he deals not only with the rapid changes in aviation but also the Nazi atrocities when his Jewish lover is killed. The second series, “Better Lucky than Dead”, follows a British fighter pilot from shortly after the Battle of Britain to the conclusion of the war. All of his stories are based on actual campaigns and also follow his girl, an ambulance driver in London. Having flown different war birds, I do my best to make the reader sweat as much as the young men at the controls of aircraft that usually carried a little more than two hours of fuel and twenty seconds of sustained firing of their ammunition. 

Another manuscript, “The Incident at Dry Salvages”, explores the world of forensic psychology as my character, Lillian Anderson, finds out that her patient is a serial killer. Her discovery leads to some intense therapy sessions as well as interfacing with law enforcement. The search for the perp leads to a pursuit during stormy weather and fog off the rocky coast of Cape Ann, and into the Great Salt Marsh of the North Shore.