Storytelling World
Honor Award in 2002 for "A Horrifyingly True Fishing Story"

Whether you spend the summer at the Delaware Beaches or on the Jersey Shore, there’s a fascination with what lies beneath the water’s surface. Some wonder who or what may have walked today’s sand decades or centuries ago.

Did Indians view settlers’ wooden ships from sites where condos now stand? Did pirates haul chests filled with treasure or did bloated corpses wash onto current beachfront property? And did scavengers, the ancestors of present day locals, rush onto the coastline to steal from the pockets of the shipwrecked dead?

In Terrifying Tales of the Beaches and Bays, our readers will read about:

• Donovan, a river pilot on a memorable New Year’s Eve cruise;
• Desperate Confederate soldiers who attempt to escape from Fort Delaware’s island prison;
• A boy assigned a deadly chore;
• Captain B and his parrot Barney, a pair of experienced seekers of pirate gold;
• Teddy Bear, an old jewelry designer with a serious secret to hide;
• A museum guard endowed with the family’s unspoken “gift”;
• Lighthouse keepers who still tend their long-gone beacon;
• Fishermen stranded in the icy waters of the Chesapeake Bay;
• Ocean City’s “Trash Rat”;
• Friends who will remember a very unusual fishing trip;
• Family members with a very strong connection during the Korean War;
• A memorable fishing adventure near Lewes; and
• A terrifying puffin watching cruise in the Atlantic Ocean off the rocky coast of Northern Maine. present day locals, rush onto the coastline to steal from the pockets of the shipwrecked dead.

A Delmarva Beach-reading Best Seller