So yeah! Enjoy "Break the Grass Ceiling." It's a fun ride, I'm honored someone liked it enough to have it performed with real actors on a real stage. I hope you enjoy it.

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3) Toward the end of the podcast interview, the ridiculous escalation is based heavily on an experience I had under my not-pen name, where a particular blogger gave a similar endcap to a video about some local activism I got involved with.

It wasn't pleasant, but the actress *nailed* the absurdity

2) Apparently, the terminology of "Yeti" v. "Sasquatch" v. "Bigfoot" is significant. In workshopping the piece, I was told rather directly how the words weren't interchangeable and that "if people know, they will know." It gave me a funny exchange during the interview scene, so win/win.

Some additional pop-up video notes:

1) The activist's name is the name of one of my son's friends who knows I write. She insisted that I name a character in a story after her, so I made her the potty-mouthed podcast guest. The mom felt it was apt.

The director loved the piece, was on board to get a bunch of Sasquatch outfits. A good friend performed in it. We made some changes for pacing and time. I made a campaign poster.

I think it's probably my most overtly political piece I'll ever write. Especially in This Unprecedented Era (TM).

Then I remembered Harriett Henderson. Realized that there was an angle I could use that could kind of skewer the current mood, probably retain the spirit of my stupid idea from five years ago, and make it work.

It worked.

Finally, when the showcase got announced, I was going to adapt my haunted hotel story from the Broken Teacup, "We Hope You Enjoy Your Stay," but it ended up being a lot more complicated to turn into a staged production than I thought.

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This one was one of the first stories I ever tried to write, back in late 2020 / early 2021, and I could never quite hit the notes I wanted to. I loved the conceit a lot, but couldn't figure out why I thought this would be worth doing. I came back to it every six months or so, but...

As a separate aside, @dailydrunkmag.bsky.social was one of the first publications to ever put my words into digital print. I'm forever a fan. Thanks!

I now know more about Taylor Swift than I really wanted to, and there are notes in here for all levels of Swift fandom, so check it out.

I'm decidedly not a Swiftie in the classical sense. I think the two pandemic folk records are awesome, and I find her to be a fascinating individual and an interesting songwriter.

This is very much a piece in admiration of her world domination.

👀 @dailydrunkmag.bsky.social

So enjoy a bowl of iced cream and learn a little bit about Emma Goldman in the process. tinyurl.com/wwchandfield

(yes b is true - I thought of him every time I got to read the title aloud. Sorry not sorry. Read his books. He is great.)

I was also inspired by old newspapers with their overly flowery & repetitive storytelling style, which I thought fit in with the time and place of the whole thing.

I also went with a ridiculous title a) bc old newspapers did that and b) bc @ericraglin1992.bsky.social ranted about long titles once.

I was rattling around a story of Emma Goldman getting visited by a ghost for a few years, and doing some research about whether or not she ever taught in my hometown led me to learn about how Worcester ended up being the flashpoint for the most consequential event in her American lifetime.

"World War Z" x "Spontaneous" x "When Women Were Dragons"

Opening: "Everyone remembers where they were when they learned that Taylor McCracken started spewing magma."

#2025pit