by Mike Bozart
The first one, Maine, Mainly, takes place primarily in Bar Harbor. Such an atypical, starkly scenic, rocky coast for the American Atlantic. The second one, Jōhatsu to Portsmouth?, is actually short enough to qualify as flash fiction. So many intentional self-vanishings. The third one, Eudaimonia in Vermont, is set just northeast of Burlington. The good life. The fourth little tale, Zoar Gap Trap, takes place in the Berkshires of northwestern Massachusetts. A winter hike that gets very...