Payne holds an MFA in fiction from Stonecoast. He writes short stories and plays. His piece, "Fish Story" won the New Guard Review's Machigonne Fiction Contest. A number of his plays have won awards and have been produced in Boston, San Francisco, New York, and Maine. One ten minute play is published by Samuel French. He makes a living writing radio commercials that are heard nationally. He's thrilled to be a part of Fractured Lit's publication.
First it was the little porcelain dogs with green glass eyes. Each one in various uniforms. A policeman bulldog, a doctor poodle, a nurse greyhound. Over a hundred and twenty in the series. She got them all. They lined...