: About Me

I am a Creative Writing/English major at California State University Northridge. I will be starting the MFA program in Creative Writing this summer, and finally working on my PhD. in Writing. I am also beginning the TA program at C.S.U.N to become a professor in English.

My plans are to have my first book published by the end of next spring. My second book will follow it shortly in the winter of 2008.

At the present time, I am working on five books.

Writing became my life when I was a financial planner with AIG/Sun America. At that time, I was in school to become a computer programmer, but a particular English professor I had introduced me to the world of writing. Since that fateful semester, I have not been able to take the "Pen away from the paper" as some will say.

Through my professor at Pierce College, I was shown another part of English. It was the part that most students in college never think about, and for me it is all I think about now.

My passion is ...

Writing

I know too much about ...

Nature, Electronics, Animals, Computers, Travel, Cars, Cycling, Construction, and tons more.

My parents always told me ...

Never had the disscussion.

My childhood ambition ...

To do everything I ever dreamed of.

My favorite memory ...

Living in Japan, U.S.M.C, Habitat for Humanity, Wedding, My Dogs, and what ever else comes my way.

Why I write ...

It makes me happy.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Everything my hands, eyes, and ears come in contact with.

My first job ...

U.S. Marine Corps

My best moment ...

U.S. Marine Corps the whole time I was in, Wedding got married on the beach in Santa Monica, and things to come.

My inspiration ...

Life.

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Facing death

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After Billy Falwell stood higher than any other man did, or so he thought. Dressed in his best Sunday attire, Billy looked outward to the sea of white and black. The perfect men and women of society, these were his children, as he liked to call them. Thousands entered the "House of Billy" every weekend, and millions would watch him preach on television. The people followed Billy, for his charisma mesmerized them. A fine Italian suit in deep navy blue glistened on the three video projection screens high above. The leather-clad bible embossed in gold in his left hand waved in the air. The sw...

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