fiction, poetry, short stories

Fred has been writing stories since his childhood in Downeast and Central Maine, where the rural landscape fed dreams of distant lands with knights, dragons, and monsters. His determination to leave his home town got him as far as the University of Southern Maine, and two years later he took a university-sponsored exchange to the University of New Orleans where he studied film, photography, and drinking. After taking another year for an independent project studying the street culture of New Orleans, he headed back to Maine to graduate USM with a BA in Media Studies with University Honors. His senior thesis was the radio drama Day of the Dead, a story about a young man’s search for a missing lover in New Orleans–a celebration of his adopted and beloved city. Having found his calling in original radio drama, Fred decided to continue adapting his stories for audio and founded FinalRune Productions, following a moniker he’d been using for years. Fred’s aim is for FinalRune Productions to be a vessel to produce his own writing and those of others like-minded; by combining his passion for stories with technical savviness, Fred hopes for FinalRune Productions to be both artistically fulfilling and commercially viable. While he works to build FinalRune’s success, Fred works as a seasonal bartender and as a copywriter for a Maine web development company. Fred’s currently wintering in a summer cottage in Old Orchard Beach, Maine with his girlfriend Amy and their dog, Wattson.