Murder in the North End - She testified against the Big Sabu, now she mu...

Notes by Bill Russo Murder in the North End is a short tale that came to me over a plate of lasagna and meatballs. The food and the places are real, but the 'hitman' is fictional.

Karma and the Little Girl from Provincetown - A Christmas Tale

Notes by Bill Russo

Here's the video version of my short story, Karma and the Little Girl from Provincetown.

It looked like another sad Christmas for an unlucky fisherman from Pronvincetown. Everything changed a short time before the holiday, when his daughter Maria managed to find a treasure on the beach. How to turn the 'treasure' into something that would change the family's fortune was something that only Maria knew.

Death On A Rope - Revenge served up in a most disturbing manner!

Notes by Bill Russo In this dramatized version of one of the short stories in my book 'Swamp Tales', a greedy landowner who cheated an old Native American is visited in the dark of night by three strange creatures.

Back in 1964 after graduation from Grahm Jr. College in Boston, I knew that I did not want to work 8 hours a day at any job.

Spinning records for four hours a day sounded much better, so decided to take a job in radio. I went to the very first station that responded to my audition tape, WSJR at the top of the United States in Madawaska, Maine.

It was a great gig, but after two years I accepted a job in the Boston metro area, at WOKW in Brockton. The Mutual Radio Network billed itself as the biggest network in radio - but in truth, although it had over 500 affiliates, most of its stations were small and they did not have a station in Boston.

So sometimes, when there was a national story about the Red Sox or something else, the network would call me in Brockton, and I would do an audio report for them.

They would announce it by saying, Now reporting from Boston, Bill Russo for Mutual News - but in truth it was Brockton, not Boston! I was making about 80 bucks a week at the time, and Mutual paid me $15.00 every time they used my story - so it was a pretty nice little extra piece of change!

(The photo is not from my WOKW - it is long gone -some other station is now using the call letters. (Our jingle, sung by a group of four ladies was - "In the Know, On the Go - It's OK Radio!")

Knotso Clanky Meets Bigfoot - from Bill Russo's Short Story Theater

Notes by Bill Russo

From Season 4 of my podcast, Short Story Theater, here is the video version of Knotso Clanky Meets Bigfoot.