Because I'm trying very hard to avoid starting another book before I finish Effective Public Speaking, my podcast this week is from a fiction story: historical mystery, to be precise.
Enjoy!
The Podcast:
The Transcript:
I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for February 28, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.
This is from a historical mystery short story.
The sirens from the single ambulance and two police cars destroyed the mid-morning tranquility of Tannersville, in the Catskill Mountains in Upstate New York.
Ina Glatzer sniffed in the clean country air to see if she could identify the emergency. While she hoped no one had died, she wouldn’t mind a little excitement. Maybe a theft? Or a missing dog? Even a bank robbery would do.
Just a short bucolic drive from New York City, Tannersville felt like a new planet to Ina. In contrast to her life in the City, Tannersville had no hustle, no bustle, and definitely no sounds like The City.
The video:
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