So, I am re-settled by myself in the condo, furniture moved and rooms rearranged … and ye gods, time has moved on!
I have just $525 left to raise to meet the $1,300 goal for my summer trip to Can Serrat, the artists’ residence estate outside of Barcelona, Spain, to work on the Papaw Project. I’ve extended the campaign to June 15 – and for anyone who wants to donate again, I have new story gifts for you!
A second donation of up to $10 means you’re a VALENTINE – and you get a .pdf of my award-winning short story, “The Valentine.” This story was published in the 2013 Bacopa Literary Review and was the Second-Place Winner in their annual fiction contest.
A second donation of $11- $50 means you’re IN MOONLIT BONG – and you get two short-short stories that were published in the online creative-life magazine Rebelle Society: “In Moonlit Bong” and “Not the Enemies You’re Looking For.”
A second donation of $51-100 means you are a SWEETIE – and you get a SNEAK PREVIEW of the Second Ross Lamos Mystery, still in progress!
All my thanks and praise to those who have donated already. I hope you have enjoyed the stories of the Papaw Project!
The story that will cap the collection is being enriched by my reading the wartime “ordinary soldier” accounts by Ernie Pyle: "Here Is Your War" and "Brave Men." I am also digging (ha!) into the history of the interstate highway system and methods of urban sanitation in the 1930s. Stay tuned!
