Coffee Contrails

"Fluffy and Fido Save the Day" by author and actor Tom Arns is a sweet, comedic cats-and-dogs-getting-along short story that emerged from a writing prompt. These two unlikely friends team up to protect what is dear, their food.

Many, many thanks to Bob Heubel and Paul Drescher (voice talent) for volunteering their time on this sweet audio adventure.

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Listen to the 2022 Coffee Contrails' interview with emerging poet Laurel Maxwell (@lgtanza). Laurel is a based in Northern California, and her poetry is inspired by the natural world (especially the ocean) while also taking inspiration from the seemingly mundane.

Laurel has twice been a featured reader in Celebration of the Muse, a #SantaCruz, California celebration of women poets and has appeared online at baseballballard.com. Watch the recording #SantaCruzWrites website: https://www.santacruzwrites.org/events/in-celebration-of-the-muse

"Woman of the Trees" by emerging poet Laurel Maxwell, a short story based on Josephine McCracken, an inspirational writer who advocated for saving open spaces and the Santa Cruz redwoods, which resulted in the creation of Big Basin Redwoods State Park in California.

Many, many thanks to Stefanie James (voice talent) and Stephanie Peñate (sound) for helping bring this story to life.

Learn more about Josephine McCracken at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Clifford_McCracken

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Featured in the Porter Gulch Review 2021, 37th edition, "Lost and Found" is a short story, written and narrated by Anita Dime. It's about Cristina checking in on her grieving brother Jorge, urging him to find some way to keep going. For full cast and crew credits visit coffeecontrails.com.

"Elevator Man" is a short story, written by Helene Simkin Jara. It's a rags-to-riches story of a simple man who chooses, well, to elevate himself. Many thanks to Andrew Davids and Steven Capasso for playing along. Easy peasy, if you catch my drift. For full cast and crew credits visit coffeecontrails.com.

"Desiderata" is a prose poem, written by Max Erhmann in 1927. Having appeared on Christmas cards to Leonard Nemoy's , the poem spins once more in the search of peace and happiness for 2022. Bring your desires to light in this year's trip round the sun. Many thanks to Lois Bell for lending her voice and composer and sound designer Zo Anthony Shay for the original composition. For full cast and crew credits visit coffeecontrails.com.

"Adam" is a short story, written by Joel Fishbane. The stage - an intersection of life and immortality, fact and fiction, love and loss - a fabricated place where fake trees and glitchy birdsong transport believers into an alternate reality: “Anyway, we had Wednesdays and we had the motel, but we wanted something that was entirely ours. That’s why we bought a dog." Many thanks to the cast: Justin Jones, Tom Arns, and Stefanie James. Sound design by Anita Dime. For full cast and crew credits visit coffeecontrails.com.

Sinister is what I've got to say about "Reginald the Maintenance Man", written and narrated by Steven Capasso. Police interrogate Reginald about the recent death of his boss Sheila. Just a little nudge? Accidental or not, what do you think? Sound design by Anita Dime. For full cast and crew credits visit coffeecontrails.com.

"What in Blazes" by Pat Foran is a short story, based loosely on a newspaper clipping about a fire. From there, Pat invents a personified Paper that explores change, has a way of swirling in music references (Bruce Hornsby's does seem like it might be a good mash up for Tupac's ??), and suggests that maybe all of our solutions can be found amongst the want ads. Narrated by Pat Foran. Sound design by Anita Dime. Cast: Dave Cato, Patrick Liddell, Anita Dime, Helene Simkin Jara, and Bob Heubel. For full cast and crew credits visit coffeecontrails.com.

A letter from father to son at a dark time from a pup tent in North Africa with love and dreams of home. Narrated by Bob Heubel. For full cast and crew credits visit coffeecontrails.com.