"Upon a Time ... Ever After"

Dear Jaia Papitz, Much appreciated/enjoyed your June 19th interview with Trish Hopkinson. Here's hoping that my one act play suits : ""Work with a surprise factor... Finding a piece that arrives from nowhere and immediately changes the room. That moment when a submission does not ask permission, it simply begins to exist. " Below, too many words about me. I did try to sub this as a pdf , but it kept misloading, so I'm sending it as a doxx. True thanks! lsb
L. Shapley Bassen’s grandmother was a telegrapher on Wall Street a century ago who taught her to read and tapped messages to her in Morse Code. A New Yorker living in Rhode Island, she is a multi-published & prize-winning author of fiction, poetry, & drama.
First Place winner in the 2016 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2016-02-19/l-shapley-bassens-portra…
2025 novel Blue Monkeys (Shy City House, Chicago]
2025 novel How She Came to Know (Page Turner Books, Inc. North Carolina)
2014 novel Summer of the Long Knives (Typhoon Media- Signal 8)
2014 Lives of Crime & Other Stories (Texture Press)
2017 Showfolk & Stories (Inkception Books)
2019 collected works poetry What Suits a Nudist? (Clare Songbirds Publishing House)
1996 The Month Before the Moon (Samuel French, Inc. https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/1563/the-month-before-the-moon)
Fiction editor at https://www.craftliterary.com/.
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