My newest article for Alta Magazine is about a murder mystery that happened in Carmel in 1914.
A writer named Alice MacGowan discovered a mysterious box of marshmallows sitting on her back porch. She thought they were from a friend. They weren’t. The marshmallows had been hollowed out and filled with strychnine.
You can read this weird, twisted story here.
And check out the amazing illustrations by Laura Pérez, who did the art for Only Murders In The Building. Stunning!
This is a sequel to my article on George Sterling published in Poetry Foundation. What on earth was going on in Carmel??