THE GREEN APPLE SEA

In the summer of 1944, with the world at war and the Mississippi River boiling beneath her boots, Brenda Wellers runs a rusted riverboat alone. Once petite and pretty, she’s now all grit and grease—hauling freight, dodging men who don’t think she belongs, and mourning a brother swallowed by a foreign sea.

But when a final telegram arrives—one last death she can’t stomach—Brenda does the unthinkable. With the docks of New Orleans behind her and a fading dream ahead, she turns the bow of the Clara June toward the open Gulf, chasing a place she once read about in a torn magazine...a place called The Green Apple Sea.

What follows is a haunting and lyrical journey of defiance, grief, and the quiet longing to disappear. Part Southern Gothic, part river-noir elegy, this novella burns slow and deep—like diesel in the blood.

ISBN: 979-8-9897952-8-4, 74 pages (novella)