Garden Club of the Back Bay member and Recording Secretary Patricia G. Buddenhagen has written a new piece entitled Beach Plum Jam, the latest installment of the Ploughshares Solos Series. Ploughshares Solos are single stories or essays published nine times a year. The story: Polly always finds refuge in painting. When the beautiful landscapes of the Maine island where she spends her summers leave her uninspired, she questions the life she’s been living for the past thirty years. Will the reappearance of an old, seemingly successful friend be the spark Polly needs to get back on track, or will it derail her even further?
Patricia began her career in book publishing in New York and worked as an editor at the Book-of-the-Month Club. She has since worked as a marketing specialist, a journalist, and for ten years served on the board of the Boston Branch of the English Speaking Union, an organization devoted to improving global communication through the English language. She earned an MFA in Fiction from Vermont College. Earlier stories have been published in Emrys Journal and Scrivener Creative Review.
Beach Plum Jam is available for $1.99 on http://pshares.org, and is also available in a Kindle edition on www.amazon.com.
