Paper Boxing on WFHB Radio; Fallen Arrives in Mailbox

But anyway, not too long after that, I sent another from way, way back in NEW MYSTERY MAGAZINE, in summer 1997 (and subsequently an “Anthony” award nominee for short story that year), titled “Paperboxing Art.” And this one fared better. On June 18 Robert Shull emailed back: We would like to record and air Paperboxing Art. The next step is to sign a permission slip to air the story. Then we put you on the calendar for 8/10/24. . .

The quote (for which, see July 3) has to do with local Bloomington radio station WFHB looking for stories (or essays, or excerpts, memoirs, etc.) of around 3000 words for on-the-air reading. The program, SPEAKING OF STORIES, is on Saturday mornings, at 7 a.m. or some such time when writers would be unlikely to be awake, but thus recorded can be replayed via the internet. That is to say, at a more decent time. And so. . . .

So that August 10 date was hardly set in concrete, but as time progressed the permissions and other details were accomplished. And in yesterday’s email, Sunday August 18th, came (under subject line THE DORR PROGRAM ON WFHB): I hope you are as pleased with the Paperboxing Art program as we are. Then, You can listen to it at (followed by an e-address for finding recent broadcasts). And signed Robert Shull and the Speaking of Stories production team.

So Sunday was also the Bloomington Writers Guild’s annual picnic, and I was north of town most of the day at a public park shelter gorging salads and cold cuts and other such goodies with other members, all followed by readings by most who were present, And Sunday night, just to keep things interesting, a bat somehow got itself trapped in my house, flying every which way (and to no ends thrilling the Goth cat Triana who I first had to catch and lock in the bedroom), before I could chase it out. What fun!

But anyway, so it’s today, Monday, that I’ve finally had the “leisure” to put on earphones in the library downtown and use their computer to hear it for myself. Which you can do too by pressing here.

And in other news: Well, actually not in the mailbox proper, but on the front porch. And on a Sunday — Amazon delivers swiftly sometimes. So this, my third post in a row on FALLEN (as well as my poem in it, “Scientific Method”), is simply to say it’s a beautiful book, with 160+ pages of poetry under several subheadings. More can be found in my entry below with, at the end, a link that can be used to buy your own copy.