It’s official – Marella’s play “Kick in the Pants” will be produced by First Run Theatre for their Spectrum 2021 series. Spectrum consists of several 10-15 minute plays from Midwestern playwrights.
Performance dates will be September 24-26 and October 1-3 and will be held at Bethel Lutheran Church.
More later!
Marella Sands’ new series, Escaping Normal, is a non-fiction series that will focus on the paranormal. If you have a personal experience you’d like to share, you can send it to the author via Google Forms.
The first two books of the series focus on UFOs (now apparently rebranded as UAPs – Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), and their occupants. Right now, the books don’t feature many personal stories in them but if enough are submitted, Marella will revisit the topic.
Coming up, though: books on ghosts, shadow people, Bigfoot/Sasquatch, flying monsters (Mothman, thunderbirds, etc.), triangles and vortices (Bennington Triangle, Oregon Vortex, etc.), demons, angels, and more! If you have stories that pertain to any of these topics, or others, please share.
The form will ask for your legal name, but also gives you the option to ask to be anonymous or request a pseudonym. Not everyone wants to be identified in their story, and the reasons you may or may not want to use your real name are your own.
Thanks!
Cover for the first book is in draft form, but here’s its current incarnation:
After two and a half years of attempting to learn Asante Twi, an Akan language of Ghana, I decided to share the dictionary I’ve been compiling. I began compiling my vocabulary list shortly after starting to study the language, because I was frustrated with the limitations of the dictionaries I had. Twi is a difficult language when it comes to dictionary usage, because words often change, or drop, their initial letter. For instance:
ɔkraman = dog (if it’s the first word in a sentence)
kraman = dog (if it’s not the first word in a sentence)
nkraman = dogs
I think you can see the problem. I solved this by forming my own word list and giving each form of the word its own entry. Now you can have this list, too! Click on the cover to go to the Amazon page.
When We Had Feathers, the latest adventure of Teryl Gray, bartender and descendant of angels, marks the sixth outing for this series.
Marella is researching a book series on the paranormal. If you have a personal story, or a family story, on any of the following topics, Contact Her. The more recent the story, the better! Contributors can choose to remain anonymous.
First Run Theatre’s Spectrum series, which is normally held in March or April, has been rescheduled for 2021. More details and exact dates as they become available.
Marella Sands’ play “Kick in the Pants” will be one of the plays performed this year. This is her first time having a theatrical production produced from her work.