My “Them Doore Girls” in Midnight Oil

I asked fellow Midnight Oil anthology contributors to share some things about themselves prior to publication and those generous enough to do so will be appearing here for the next week or so.

Each entry gives a taste of their contribution, a little about them, how to contact them, how their story came about, and definitely a link to Midnight Oil (which you should purchase because it would make each and every one of us happy.
you do want to make us happy, don’t you?
i mean, considering what we wrote, you want us to know you’re a good person, right?).

And now, My Them Doore Girls:

You hear that? Kind of like a ship’s horn, waiting to get piloted into land. Starts low and keening, then suddenly high. Won’t do much good looking. You can look everywhere you want in these parts and you’ll never find it. Ain’t none of us could ever find it, and we looked some. Pilot Farley, he took his skiff out far into the fishing waters and found nothing. He’d be able to find it if any could, that Pilot Farley.

The wonderful Kaye Lynne Booth also put together a video teaser for Them Doore Girls

How the story came about:
Susan (wife/partner/Princess), a long-time friend, and I took a vacation which started from our home in Nashua, NH, went up the Maine coast, eastern Maine, into Quebec to Ville de Quebec, and eventually back home. We got a motel room up on the Maine coast. They slept in and I rose early to exercise. There was a rocky drop off not far from our motel room door when went down to the Atlantic. I heard a ship’s horn in the morning fog and Them Doore Girls came fully realized in that moment.

You can learn more than is necessary about me here.

See all Midnight Oil stories here.