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UFOs are back in the news, not that they ever went completely away. Now they're referred to as "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAPs). If we're going down the euphemism road, here are some more possibilities: Enigmatic airborne vessels (EAVs); Not currently understood flying things (NCUFTs); Cryptogenic craft from who-knows-where (CCFWs); and Elusive darting things in the sky (EDTS).
Some of these objects have been described as being shaped like giant Tic Tacs. And I hate to point out the obvious, but it's likely that these so-called breath mints introduced in 1969 by the Italian company Ferrero weren't candies at all, but alien egg pods that human consumers have been blithely popping into their mouths, some not even waiting for them to dissolve completely before crunching down with their molars. Now, fifty years later, the Tic Tac mother ship is back. And she's not happy.
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)
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."
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
Acknowledgments: Photos of Stonehenge courtesy of Trevor S. Key from our trip to England in 2015. Photos of ball pit courtesy of Amelia C. Key from our trip to NYC in 2019. Other photos purchased from Shutterstock.
