A friend asked me to tell more about My DY, a story I am now in the process of editing and illustrating. With an early manuscript behind me, appropriately lodged between a Lotus shop manual and a vest atop another Lotus manual I described it. About this story, it’s been a long time coming. That...
The story I am engaged in writing is about a fellow who is making the abrupt change from childhood to adulthood via a tradition of his own country. Here is a first draft 7 page sample: The peace of summer shined in every direction. Bees and hummingbirds attended the purple flowers in grass, flitting back...
She went to camp to have fun but slipped and fell and maybe broke her foot. Right now she’s got crutches with a cute little grumpy face and puffed up toes. Maybe she should have stayed home. She was safe there. It happened to me too more than once, like the time mom dropped my...
Long ago I wrote many a story working up from short quips to a full length novel. The shorter stories were passable but I don’t think anyone made it far when reading longer ones. They lost interest after three pages. The Novel was a total bust. I’ve not discovered the secret to a nicely flavored, properly...
I’ve long imagined things in ways that turn out to be foreign to most places. I see people in that lens. I write stories with that environment in mind. I paint and draw as if that world were real and I were creating expressions of it. Thinking that my view was common and the norm...
