: About Me

my name is paul. i'm a writer. i write literary fiction & poems; shorts stories, plays & essays. i live in northeast ohio and my black boots stain a white phantasm from all the salt clearing ice from the roads.

a further exhibit of my writing is at www.myspace.com/tonightthedeadprayforus

My passion is ...

writing

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

i wrote too much on the walls

My childhood ambition ...

to become a novelist

My favorite memory ...

the one that just happened

Why I write ...

beacuse i'm alive

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

reading Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark/watching the Browns go 9-5/ listening to Harry Partch

My first job ...

summer slop-worker at Sea World

My best moment ...

is right now

My inspiration ...

to wake alive

Creative Writing > Memoirs My true story about gardening with my parents, grandparents, or children: Anecdotes

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