Read Short Biography / Autobiography Stories
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
What was I doing there under a terrible sun with a woman and a child among broken buildings vacant and violated by desperate strangers and the eerie wind...
It was the last thing I expected from a loving mother, but she broke my little heart.
No respite on the road winding through the moonlit Sierra pass I was that island in the mind's sea shivering where I stood beneath silhouette peaks...
Twenty-two...what would I do...past ties cut...no way back...newly wed...she was brown...Asian an alien...and this was the south...dirt hard..spit mean...
The bullet headed speculator took me into the gut of the ghetto...when the capital of America was also the murder capital of the world...
Back when things were still separated, a young white girl journey's to the racist south and learns a harsh reality that affects the rest of her life...
Clandestine Boy Scout organized fist fights, and a close call with the great beyond....
Evan knew where he was going. And no wonder, he was two years older than me and he had the connections, I eagerly tagged along....
My birthday party was irrelevant, having consisted of having a store bought cupcake with one candle in it shoved in my face whilst...
On a pleasant spring day, a disgruntled janitor phones in a bomb threat, freeing us to saddle up for the backwoods to get stoned on the rock...
The sun hung and wrung me out like a damp sticky rag as I cycled the circumference of the dot on the sea...
Adolescent boyhood pranks and adventures remembered...
Sixteen years old...and I'm soused....A sarge and a patrolman shined cruel flashlights in my face...and ordered me out of the vehicle...
A short autobiography for readers who enjoy St. Ours writings and wish to learn more about him.
I was thirteen years old and lasting for three months, seven days a week, I delivered the morning edition of the Richmond Times Dispatch....