: About Me

I am a freelance writer and editor living in Fort Bragg, California. I have been writing creatively in some manner since I was six or so; I remember attempting to write a novel about cats on my mother's Apple IIc. I find Native American Studies and US history to be wonderfully rich fields of study and remarkably relevant to today's issues. I absolutely enjoy learning about subjects that I have previously avoided, like US politics or social history. It's never too late to learn a new fact about something you think is boring.

I am married to a wonderful woman and I have two OUTSTANDING children; I have a son who is three-years-old and a daughter who is nineteen-months-old.

My passion is ...

My family. History. Family history. Heavy metal. Beer

I know too much about ...

nothing. I can never know too much about anything.

My parents always told me ...

I don't know. I wasn't listening.

My childhood ambition ...

I wanted to be Superman. I have two kids, so I must have achieved my goal.

Why I write ...

I cannot NOT write.

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

"The Confusion" by Neal Stephenson/Ken Burns/Arch Enemy.

My first job ...

Frying tacos at Jack-in-the-Box.

My best moment ...

is still to come.

My inspiration ...

Joseph and Ellie.

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Caught in the middle

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Rennet walked along Franklin Street, enjoying the brief summer sunshine. With a few exceptions, Fort Bragg was a miserable assignment. It was too far south to get the full Pacific Northwest moisture, but managed to stay damp for a great deal of the year. It was a treasure for mushroom hunters, both legitimate and illicit. On the other hand, the small coastal city was too far north to completely benefit from the central coast's warmer currents and hot sunshine. And to top it off, the city was convulsing, politically speaking, within the throes of industrial shift; the loggers were near exti...

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