Read Short Biography / Autobiography Stories
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
Even before 911, moving back and forth across the border almost always meant trouble for my wife....
It was lowly downtrodden Byesville which drew our family so close, brimming with bubbling over love...
It was glorious day to be out in the wild, along the coastal highway full of narcs disguised as bandana bums....
The gypsy sat on the curb near the entrance to the El Capitan, a wily buzzard with knees as high as her head putting on the airs of a cagey owl...
My suburban virgin eyes noticed things which barely fazed the jaded denizens...
This wasn't deprivation...it was her magnificent life. A rich, fertile, uncomplicated life of toil and toll and I wanted more of what she was about....
...if you happened to be running for your life late at night across yards you had no business trespassing on account of a street gang catching you in...
When I first noticed Mason he was loitering behind the school in the designated smoking pit. He stood apart and brooding over his Camel....
Even the happiest of birthday intentions can be terrifying when the focus of the birthday is a timid momma's boy...
True story from the author's life recalling being a newcomer to the racist south in 1963 and the terror he experienced.
The Death of my Shih-Tzu, Freckles