If I were to start this story with a word, a word to sum it all up, I would pick "beauty". It's one of the simplest and overused words in the English language. It brings to mind things like sunshine, and women with delicate features. That's not the type of beauty I'm talking about. More like the kind of beauty that festers, lives and breaths under the sin. D...
When I was fifteen, I wrote a poem that earned me a spot in a writer's workshop. I didn't submit it, a teacher did. I was the youngest person in the workshop. I did not know it at the time but a special arrangement had been made for me after some degree of protest. I didn't even have to pay. There was a girl, she was seventeen and apparently gifted from the...
What? You've never had duck? Let's make a date, my house, Saturday night, 7 p.m. Wear something casual. I age the duck. Clean it, split it, remove the backbone (which I save for the gravy ... see below), make small gashes in its skin (don't go into the muscle!), salt it down, put it on top of a rack, and let it sit in a cool place about 4 days. Fridge in...
Country queens Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert have just exited the Billboard Music Awards after a night highlighted by the debut of their new duet "Somethin' Bad." And Miranda has an idea to cut loose and have some fun in Vegas for the night before going back to their regular lives the next day. "Come on Carrie, it'll be fun," Miran...
"The Outsider" is my sixth novel and follows the lives of two protagonists, Mike Sinclair and Ruthie Burns. Mike Sinclair appeared briefly in the beginning chapters of "The Freshman" as Lisa Campbell's original boyfriend, but I had Lisa break up with him and banished him to California when I felt that his presence in the novel was slowing down the plot. Mike...
Question: Which story conveys you the best? Answer: I think that the character the most like me is Allison from "Poker Loser" and "Allison's New Life", and I found that I gave Todd a lot of my boyfriend's personality and characteristics as well. Obviously the actual story line has nothing to do with anything that's happened in my life, but the characters...
OK, I'm not a professional writer. I'm not an editor or anyone else with a recognized expertise. I'm a reader. I fell in love with the written word when I was eight years old and I've been in love with it ever since. I've read thousands of books, from just about every type you could name. Fiction and non-fiction, horror, science fiction, science fantasy and...
Author's Note: This is my attempt to explain my thoughts about readers and those that comment. Before you even get into it, let me say thank you. Thank you for reading. Thank you for taking your precious time to read the words that I have put together, hopefully with the goal of overall entertainment. This is not a fiction story, just my opinion, so you'v...
The short path that ran between two rows of backgardens was a regular part of young Alan's route home from work. On this particular long hot summer day, he was struck by a woman hanging out her washing. She was a shapely long-haired blonde, and was pinning a pair of black nylon panties to the line. Alan slowed, his heart pumping, and stared as much as he dar...
This chapter will be better appreciated if the reader first experiences the previous 10 chapters. A couple of characters from another work of mine (Ariana) make appearances now in this story. The author will now break the rules of writing and switch from the first person (Alexis) to the third person. This new chapter takes place four years after we left off....