Welcome to My Author Portfolio
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I recently ordered an item that was shipped using "mail innovations" which means the item was sent UPS but was then passed to the post office for delivery. Mail innovations, they tell you when you try tracking to find where your lost package is, "is not a day definite service." It's not even a week definite service. It'll come when it comes, in other words. I suppose someone saved some money on shipping, but the item took close to a month to arrive. In football terms, UPS got the ball to the twenty yard line and passed it off to the postal service which stumbled across the goal line a week later. Soon we'll have "mail innovations plus" where UPS hands a package off to the postal service which then passes it off to a lame camel. I love our mail carrier. She's a wonderful woman. But I expected more out of the 21st century. The one good idea the postal service has had was the Forever stamp, which eliminated the need to buy two and three cent stamps to keep up with the price increases. Where's the person who thought that up?
PUBLISHED STORIES AND ESSAYS
OTHER PUBLISHED STORIES... AND ESSAYS
How To Eat Right
How To Manage Your Money
How To Stay Healthy
The Fall Of Squirrel
Cake Walk
Do-gooders Gotta Eat Too
Of Peas and Queues
Three O'clock in the Garden of Good and Evil
A Star Falls on Alabama
News Item
The Visitor
Mr. Blinkie To The Rescue
The Point System
Elements Of Success
She Spits to Conquer
So THAT's What Happened
The Tree Remembers
Christmas Time Is Here
The Sodfather
What MLK Day Means To Me
Thanks, Mussolini
The Cure
Tarzan In Decline
Side Effects
Greatest Of All Time (forthcoming)
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AWARDS AND HONORS
2013 First Place Humor Division Alabama Writers Conclave (AWC) Contest
2014 Finalist PNWA Competition Short Topics Category
2015 First Place Creative Non-Fiction Division AWC Contest
2016 Second Place Fiction Gulf Coast Writers Let's Write Contest
2017 Pushcart Prize nomination from Hawaii Pacific Review for The Last Hundred Days
2018 First Honorable Mention Short Story Division AWC contest
2018 Second Place Chattahoochee Valley Contest Short Story category
2019 First Place Flash Fiction Division AWC contest
2020 First Place Essay Streetlight Magazine
2020 Top ten finalist for The Opossum Prize
2020 Honorable Mention Stories That Need To Be Told Anthology
2020 First place Flash Fiction category in Seven Hills contest
"Life is a moderately good play with a poorly written third act."
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Truman Capote
"Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
CURRENTLY READING
...or just finished
Pity The Reader by Suzanne McConnell
At Home by Bill Bryson
