WELCOME TO MY AUTHOR PORTFOLIO
More literary and cinematic titles that had to be discarded:
The Catcher in the Corn
East of Baltimore
Citizen Crane
The Witches of Pensacola
A Tree Grows in the Bronx
The Really Good Escape
The Croatian Job
The Smith Identity
Schindler's Memo
The Girl on the Greyhound Bus
The Funeral Crashers
Tap Dances With Wolves
Mission Highly Improbable
Indigestion, Actually
Band of Cousins
Apocalypse Soon
A Farewell To Legs
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Spleen
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
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
2021 Second place Streetlight Magazine's Flash fiction 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
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
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.
