I mention that I teach graduage school at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA in Writing program occasionally. I started in 2019, just before the pandemic. Since I have been off social media a lot, and this blog was down for a long time, I’ve not been bigging up my students when they accomplish something I can point my own readers at.
Weel, this April is a fun month as one of my students has a book coming out that I got to see in early stages as an instructor. It’s a wonderfully creepy New England horror tale called “And the Cat Came Back” by Alan Marks.
The book launches today, April 18th, and if you like Stephen King, regional horror, and a few shivers, check it out. I really enjoyed it:
Terrence is a fussy, pretentious little man with terrible allergies and a deep dislike for all things feline.
But that does not mean he ran over Mister Whiskers, his boss’s prized cat, on purpose!
He disposes of the body and keeps his head down, hoping no one traces the deed to his doorstep. No one does.
Well, except another cat who bears a striking resemblance to Mister Whiskers …
As Terrence dispatches the new Mister Whiskers, and the next, and the next, it becomes apparent this cat has more than nine lives.