The Books

Five Anthologies

 

 

  
    
 

Commentary

 

 

 

 Skipping Stones anthology--a collection of short stories written by members of Northwest Arkansas Writers. My contribution is entitled: An Old Wizard's Folly. An old engineer whose walls are covered with blueprints of strange contrivances known only to him designes a gyroglider. During the old wizard's maden flight, the complex framework and rotor becomes tangled high up in the limbs of a tree.

 

 

My Dad is my Hero anthology--edited by Susan Reynolds, Literary Cottage, Pembooke, MA, and published by Adams Media in Avon MA. This collection of short stories is dedicated to “the man who gave us life, love and driving lessons.” My contribution is “A Winter’s Tale,” my recollection of an event that took place many years ago in Northern Illinois.

 

 

Voices anthology--a collection of short stories compiled by Delois McGrew and Louella Turner, and published by High Hill Press of St. Charles, MO. My contribution is entitled, Predators of a Different Fur. The General Manager of a conference center belonging to a large conglomerate has trouble getting the corporation's CEO to approve a small capitol appropriation--money to purchase equipment to save the lives of swans that fall prey to a fox that crosses the ice to the small island and have carte blanche. 

 

Echoes of the Ozarks, Volume III--favorite stories from the Ozark Writers League, published by AWOC.COM, Denton, TX. My contribution was Interview with Clyde Barrow. “It weren’t me that was killed with Bonnie in Gibsland Louisiana back in ‘34,” Clyde said. “It was Homer Bosworth. Think about it. With all them headlines sayin’ ‘Bonnie and Clyde was killed by Frank Hamer,’ do ya think Hamer’d go public with, ‘Oops, I shot the wrong man?’” Clyde gave me a demented grin. “Give me a break. It was like a big-game hunt to them lawman who pursued us¾ just two more trophies to hang over Hamer's fireplace next to the head of the moose he’d shot last year up in Canada.” Clyde Barrow died at his cabin in Hot Springs, AR at the age of ninety.

Echoes of the Ozarks, Vol. II anthology, Ozark Writers League, Published by AWOC.COM Publishing, Denton, TX. My contribution, That Special Glimmer--a story about the early days of the last century in the White Rock Mountains of Arkansas. Grandpa stood tall with his bowler hat cocked to one side, wearing a dark suit with a crisp, white collar and black tie. He had a neatly-trimmed handlebar mustache, and his eyes . . . yes . . . there it was, that special glimmer in his eyes¾ the kind of glimmer you get when you know a secret or something exciting, but you weren't quite ready to tell it.