The Dirt:

I notice many people make the curious decision to write their “About Me” sections in the third person. I am going opt out of the ordinary and take the dirt road. I am going to write from my own perspective.

I am 5 foot and two inches tall. My left eye is green and my right eye resembles that which is described in Edgar Allen Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart” as “…the eye of a vulture –a pale blue eye, with a film over it.” This is an honor and a privilege, as thanks to my sister, this is one of my all time favorite short stories. It did scare people throughout my childhood but hopefully I won’t end up playing the part of the old man later on in life!

My Writing:

I have published one novel and one short story. I have written a small collection of short stories along the vein of the one I have published and I am deciding if I might like to market them as a collection or individually. I have also written an article for Readers’ Digest and I am still waiting to hear back on it. I am just beginning my writing career and this website/blog is my first big marketing step. We’ll see how things go!

Children’s Names:

Husky One: Gandalf (male)

Husky Two: Mischief (male)

Kitty One: Slash (female)

Kitty Two: Robert Marshall Thomas (nicknamed ‘blackberry’ for a curious fur coloration)

 Movies I like: The Stuff, Contact, Dante’s Peak, Swamp Thing, Journey to the center of the Earth (old one not the new 3D thing), Signs, The Happening (bad acting aside), It Came From Outer Space (1&2)

Shows I like: The Twilight Zone (original), Star Trek (Everything but the newest – I even love the animated series though character art & animation sucks)
Writing I like: Anne McCaffery (The dolphins of Pern), Jonathan Swift (The proposition), Machiavelli (The Prince),  Discworld(Going Postal)

Other things I like: Taco bell, Animal Crackers, bad weather, and weird dreams.