: About Me

Hi, I'm a retired teacher, diagnosed with an obsessive compulsive personality disorder. I play classical piano, work with children's groups at church, swim a mile every day and try not to go out of the house too much otherwise.

I've never been married(the obsessive compulsive thing tends to annoy men) and at this point I don't much care although I do wish I had had children. Ah well, they'd probably be nuts, too.

I have an active imagination. I've written some truly epic novels(in my mind) but I've never been able to get them down on paper because I never could get that first sentence just exactly the way I wanted it. Recently the shrink put me on some new meds which I assume has helped with that problem. Something has helped because suddenly I'm quite prolific. I've written about 75 short stories in the last two months. The downside to this being that I find myself being significantly less concerned about punctuation. I have to go back and re-read on several occasions, looking for grammatical errors, before I feel comfortable publishing. For that reason, I've only shared a couple of stories. But eventually I will share more.

My passion is ...

music, swimming

I know too much about ...

television

My parents always told me ...

that they knew more than I did

My childhood ambition ...

was to be an astronaut

My favorite memory ...

a moonlight swim

Why I write ...

because right now I can. I hope that continues

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

I'm listening to Paul McCartney sing Yesterday

My first job ...

teaching

My best moment ...

the first time I swam a mile

My inspiration ...

Christ

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Beyond love

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Destiny It was a cool, rainy autumn day when Kristin McKay arrived in San Francisco. Her plane had been delayed by storms in the area. She had notes to go over before the business meeting she was in town to attend tomorrow. In addition, she had worked a full day before leaving Seattle earlier in the afternoon. All she really wanted to do was go to her hotel room, order room service, and relax. However, she could not come to San Francisco without visiting with Olivia, one of her oldest and dearest friends. And, she was leaving town tomorrow as soon as her meeting was over. So it had to be t...

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