It turned out that several workshop attendees were arriving to Bangor International Airport at around the same time, so once everyone had collected the baggage, we all jumped into Rob’s van (the island caretaker, who came to pick us up) to head to Jonesport to then take the boat to the island.

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Our white cat took a dirt bath today–you can see the result.

Oh, but look at those eyes!

My story, “A Healing Place,” is out in the April 2010 edition of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.

You didn’t know I was Southern? Well, I guess my Southern Legitimacy Statement proves it.

By the way, the April edition of The Dead Mule has one of their biggest fiction issues ever, along …