Welcome to My Author Portfolio
In addition to COVID-19 infection, other things I'm trying to prevent are: seasonal flu, shingles, deficiencies of vitamins C, D, and B-12, high cholesterol, dementia, skin cancer, athlete's foot, toenail fungus, muscle loss, flat tires, forest fires, carbon monoxide poisoning, identity theft, computer hacks, ransomware attacks, roach infestation, houseplants drying up, poison ivy, tooth decay, gum disease, depression, boredom, body odor, IRS audits, world hunger, and individual hunger. Oh yeah, and writer's block.
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
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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
"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
Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik
Truman by David McCollough
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