A Maturing Palate

Recently I was working on adapting a short story of mine to a short animated film (using AI graphics). “American Dream Girl” is about an encounter between a young man and someone he went to high school with; it’s three years later, his fortunes seem to be on the rise, but she’s working as aContinue reading “A Maturing Palate”

Childhood’s Paradise Lost

One of my profound regrets is the number of fireflies I caught in my jars during my childhood. I didn’t free them; I left them in the jar for the next night, but of course they never survived. And now, every summer, I only see a few of them, when there were so many whenContinue reading “Childhood’s Paradise Lost”