Bitter Passage: A story set during America's epic 1849 gold rush
Elizabeth Buechner Morris (Betsy) lives by the sea in Marblehead, Massachusetts and has for most of her adult life. When she retired from Bank of Boston she and her husband moved aboard their 39 foot sailboat and cruised the waters of the American and Canadian east coast, Caribbean, and South and Central America for five years, braving all the usual demons from horrific storms to marauding jelly fish to once having a boa constrictor aboard. Now they live ashore most of each year, only living aboard full time in the sub-tropics during the winter. She attended Sweet Briar College and has degrees from Goddard College in Vermont (BA) and Simmons College in Boston (MBA).  She writes for the sailing press: SAIL Magazine, Points East, Southwinds, Power Cruising,and others. And her short fiction has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Hawaii Pacific Review, Binnacle, The Evening Street Review, Janus, Slow Trains, WordRiot, PersimmonTree, Evening Street Review, weber studies, The Hurricane Review, and others.