Green Light, Long Shadows

This body of work captures a series of vivid, autobiographical stories drawn from the Author’s youth in Warwick, New York. Spanning memories of high school days, summer lake escapes, friendships, first loves, loss and the cultural rhythms of a rural town in the 1970s and 1980s, these essays explore how identity is shaped by place, memory and community. Themes of nostalgia, coming-of-age and impermanence recur throughout. The stories blend warmth, humour and reflection, offering personal insight into the passage of time, the rituals of adolescence and the haunting beauty of people and moments now long gone but deeply remembered.