: About Me

Hi, my name is David McClain. I am a recent exile from the great state of Texas, now residing in the frozen heartland of Missouri. If I have learned nothing else since moving here, I at least now understand what all those numbers on the thermometer, below the 50 degree mark, are for.

When not struggling to stay warm, or working my "day Job" at Wal-Mart, I can be found here at the computer writing my short stories and essays. I have published a couple of short stories in different, obscure magazines so far and within the next few months I am publishing a collection of short stories called: Tales of the Storyteller.

I am married to a wonderful lady, Melinda and I have five grown children, each of whom I am proud of. My children have fulfilled every parents dream for their kids: They all live on their own and not with me anymore..."WAY TO GO KIDS!"

When not writing opinion pieces, my writing tends to be of the humorous variety, or what I sometimes refer to "Twilight Zone" types of stories...I love a good twist.

If anyone is interested in reading some of my stories, please feel free to visit my Portfolio at Writing.Com.

http://www.writing.com/main/my_portfolio

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Maturity

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What do you mean, I'm too old? Get the heck out of the way and let me do this....." And so it begins. Once again my brain writes a check my body is no longer capable of cashing and I spend the next day or two unable to move because my fifty-seven year old muscles have been asked to perform twenty year old muscle tasks. This happens to me all the time and it is my brain's fault; he refuses to concede that my body has aged. The brain, after all, is just sitting up there, protected by that thick skull and doing very little. Is it any wonder he still believes he is twenty years old? He continu...

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