A 2-fer and I'm happy to have flash fiction "Labor Day at the Border Café" published in 10 X 10

      Labor Day at the Border Café a flash fiction went live today on 10 X 10 Flash, Issue 12. 

The journal is Zvi Sesling's marvelous creation and is in the link below.

click here for 10 X 10 Issue 12

The Story Behind the Story:

    One of the first Tex-Mex Restaurants in my area  was The Border Café in Harvard Square (The El  Phoenix Room was the other. I could never get past the redundant "The El"). Boy, years back, would I go there and pre-game before any Cambridge event. 

That one closed in 2020, but I would drive to the other Burlington to enjoy their food, but no longer the Margaritas. Interesting thing happened there the last time I went, and I've not been back since. You can read about it in this issue of  10 X 10 Flash Fiction, Issue 12. The piece is personal and partially true.. 

Actually, I sat in the booth right here---inside. After all, it was raining. 

10 BY 10, Ten Flash Fictions by Ten Writers publishes my piece, "Dig 'Em" in their Anniversary Issue

   A year ago, Zvi Sesling selected ten of his favorite flash fiction authors to be a part of his new magazine 10 BY 10. One year later the same group (minus 1.....let's see 10 X 10 -1 = 99. Math.). What I mean is 9 of the original ten are back for the anniversary, and that couldn't be more cool. 

YOU CAN READ TODAY'S ISSUE

RIGHT HERE

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Now the story behind the story, Dig 'Em: 

     In a time without streaming services there was nothing more exciting than Saturday morning cartoons. They would start early in the morning, and run until about 1 PM when Shazam! would be scheduled. It was the closest to binge watching there was back then.  With that demographic you can imagine the commercials, which were for sugary cereals, one of them being Sugar Smacks (same as Honey Smacks). 

     When I heard Larry Moran died, I got a little obsessed about the voice actor who lent himself to Dig 'Em the frog, a  mascot who was the main box character and cereal TV commercial star. Actually there were five actors who shared Dig 'Em throughout history, but it was in 2017 when Larry Moran passed, and that's where my thought process began. 

The story features Todd, who also had Dig 'Em etched into his memory. 

                                       YOU CAN READ THE STORY HERE

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