Welcome to My Author Portfolio
An interview with the author: So, what's the deal with Stonehenge? We were there a few years ago and the ravens seemed to be mocking the humans since we were forbidden to touch the stones and they weren't. Who has influenced your writing? Charles Portis, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain are three writers I admire. Which piece of music do you love the most? Rachmaninov's piano concerto #2. Second place would be Dancing Queen by ABBA. Don't you think more people would visit your website if you offered refreshments or coupons for free stuff? Certainly. But I don't know how to do that. They should be happy I don't have advertisements. You were kidding about Dancing Queen, weren't you? How could you tell?
PUBLISHEDÂ STORIESÂ ANDÂ ESSAYS
THE VISITOR
This story was recently published in the on-line version of Carbon Culture Review.
LOVE AND THE ART OF BLOODLETTING
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This piece won first honorable mention in the Alabama Writer's Conclave annual contest in 2018. Follow the link and go to page 36.
OTHER PUBLISHED STORIES... AND ESSAYS
How To Eat Right
How To Manage Your Money
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 Last Hundred Days
Mr. Blinkie To The Rescue
The Point System
Elements Of SuccessÂ
She Spits to Conquer
So THAT's What Happened
Christmas Time Is HereÂ
The Sodfather
What MLK Day Means To Me (forthcoming)
AWARDS AND HONORS
2013 First Place Humor Division Alabama Writers Conclave Contest
2014 Finalist PNWA Competition Short Story 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 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
"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
AWARDS AND HONORS
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CURRENTLY READING
...or just finished
What's So Amazing About Grace by Phillip Yancey
Escape Velocity edited by Jay Jennings
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Photos of Stonehenge and ravens courtesy of Trevor S. Key from our 2015 trip to England
Photos of lightning and canon purchased from Shutterstock Images
CONTACT
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