Hansel and Gretel: The Panto

I was on the writing team of the 2017 panto for Piccolo Theatre. (Panto: A family holiday show from England, filled with slapstick, puns, music, and topical jokes.) This is a couple of scenes that were assigned to me, selected from an early draft.
Loren and the Broom

This is a ditty I wrote on account of boredom a few months ago. I will be adding more stories as time goes on – if you’re lucky (or unlucky, depending on what you think of my work) I may find and deem worthy one of my three novels and put some of it up. Stay tuned.
Untitled (in Russia)

I wrote this while sick in Russia. The first few sentences are true.