Cinnamon Diamonds is a short story retelling the amazing events of a stormy night in 1847. A three masted schooner sailed through a hurricane off the east coast of the United States. A young man named Hanson Gregory became the creator of the first ever hole in a doughnut. It's creation during a hurricane has become a thing of legend. This story couples his one and only interview with a newspaper reporter in 1916 with repeated and no doubt distorted versions of the truth from his fellow sailors whom he recited the tale to in his retirement in a Massachusetts sailor's home. There are two tales in the one story. The Captains retirement home in Massachusetts, set in 1916 it is a brief glimpse of a way of life which can only be imagined. Then there is the Captains experience as a cabin boy aboard the Felix Lighter during the year 1847. They are two snap shots of different times experienced by the one man.