: About Me

The Fun stuff:

I'm a 29 year old single mother of two amazing girls. My hobbies include Writing fantasy, wood-burning, video games, and dancing. I tend to dabble a bit in the Fencing department and honestly it's hard for an adult mother to get up in a beginning class filled with 8-10 year old boys and a few adult males at my height of 4ft 10in, it's quite an amusing sight as well.

The more professional Stuff:

I have my Associates Degree in English and am working towards my Bachelors Degree.

I am currently a volunteer slush pile reader at  www.everdayfiction.com

I took Journalism in high school and had one article published in the local newspaper in 1998.

I'm dedicated at Helping others with critiques. I'm a member of Critique circle and have critiqued over 100 short stories/novels included.

www.critiquecircle.com

I am a published author and you can view my author web page for publications at

http://authorsummerross.weebly.com/publications.html

I was the student poetry and prose judge for Expression Magazine at Casper College for 2010 and 2011

Goals:

My goal is to be a published fiction writer. I will only fail if I don't try. I write short stories and poetry.

Other stuff:
I love animals, currently owning, for the first time, a ferret my six year old named Sniffy.
My nose is forever stuck in books...romance/fantasy
I adore corn and mashed potatoes as a preferred vegetable.

My passion is ...

Writing

My parents always told me ...

I needed to check the oil in my car

My childhood ambition ...

To be an author

My favorite memory ...

Staying up all night on Friday the 13th watching horror movies.

Why I write ...

Because I love it.

My first job ...

Burgerking

My best moment ...

There are too many to name one.

My inspiration ...

Life is my inspiration.

Politics, News & Issues > Family Law Horror stories of child abuse: Parents as criminals

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Back in centuries past, many families believed things that happened in a home stayed in the home. Sex wasn't something to discuss, let alone if a child was being abused were they allowed to admit to it. Now as people take this past into consideration, I will tell a story of my own. I'm 25 yrs old. I have been sexually abused since I was three years old. It started after my parents divorced, for reasons I'm still unaware of. My mother was an alcoholic but at three years old, I loved her more than anything, and I believed my father loved me. I remember going to my dad’s trailer. My roo...

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