: About Me

It took me thirty-five years to learn what I wanted to be when I grew up. Until then, I often felt as if there were a squiggly hole in my life. I can relate the feeling to solving a jigsaw puzzle that had a million pieces, yet, there was that last piece that eluded me. That piece that was around here somewhere, maybe under the couch or still in the box. I looked for years to find it. Then I discovered it was right in front of me, or rather inside of me. It was courage.

It is one thing to step outside of the box. But it's another to step outside of a box that was never there to begin with. I allowed obstacles to be obstacles. And I kept trying to climb over them instead of just kicking them to the side. But I didn't want to make any enemies, and I didn't feel I had the strength to battle the people closest to me for trying to rise above the "normal people" syndrome. The snowy noise that told me that normal people worked nine to five, in an ice-cube, then clocked out and went home never knowing why they were there in the first place. When the opportunity presented itself, a time when there were no excuses, I sat down and drafted my first novel, six hundred pages in six weeks, yet a million (who's counting?)edits in three years.

Everything I had in me is now there. The good, the bad, and the indecent. I had a lot of things to come to grips with, and even more to atone for. Hopefully, if my book gets published, it will move readers and leave them something tangible to process. The emotions that could never be explained. The secrets that should have never been kept. If I touch just one person in my life, my journey will be complete, and everything else will be extra.

Anyway, that's me. I'm the proud single parent of two healthy boys, I have an MBA, and an MFA in Creative Writing, plus I'm a graduate of the Long Ridge Writers' Group.

My passion is ...

Writing. What else is there?

I know too much about ...

Nothing. You can never know too much. Knowledge is power.

My parents always told me ...

Get a job.

My childhood ambition ...

Survival

My favorite memory ...

haven't created it yet.

Why I write ...

To touch people's hearts. (seriously)

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

Darren Hayes' Spin CD

My first job ...

Flipping burgers

My best moment ...

The best is yet to come.

My inspiration ...

My children.

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Falling in love

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I know the mirror won't answer me, Leshawn Anderson, if I ask it who's the fairest of them all, so I don't ask, even though my ivory-smooth, double-breasted suit hangs my well-sculpted body better than an old western sheriff executing the city's most wanted outlaw. Not to mention my smooth maple skin that sets off my eyes that are sharper than liquid onyx. And it's not because I don't believe in fairy tales, which I don't, and it's not because I'm not the finest man on the planet. The mirror can't answer me because it's speechless. Besides, there's just no need to ask a question I already ...

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