My Ten Most Popular Published Works

·         “Grandma’s Way” – Collateral Journal – May 2021

·         “The Mule is a Noble Beast” – Dead Mule School of Southern Literature – January 2021

·         “An Oklahoma Christmas” - The Ravens Perch – May 2021

·         “Bill, Polio and Baseball Dreams” – Down in the Dirt – November 2021 and Twin Bill Baseball - Oct 2022

·         “Summer Slave” – Bastards Magazine – April 2018 

·         “Rules of Dying” – Deadly Writers Patrol – July 2017

·         “Top Side’s Secret Weapon” – O Dark Thirty Magazine – June 2016  

·         “Sir Walter Raleigh, Nude Chickens, Pretty Girls, and A&W Rootbeer” -  The Charles Carter - A Working Anthology – September 2015

·         “After Midnight” – Stone Slide Collective –  November 2015

·         “A Long Winter Storm” – The Ravens Perch – July 2015

“Grandma’s Way” is my most popular story if popularity is determined by reader’s comments. I received emails about this veteran overcoming his war injuries from Texas, Missouri, Ohio, and Washington. Most reader’s expressed their appreciation of how small town high school cliques came to life. One reader insisted she went to school with Candi Ann!

“A Long Winter Storm,” also garnered a number of emails primarily for memories uncovered by the storm’s description. (And, several phone calls asking if a certain character mentioned in the story was their kin. It’s fiction, but people want to know.) “After Midnight,” rang the bell for many male readers – the brutal bare knuckle boxing scenes and kind-hearted Hamas shooting the bad guy to protect Winder, were lauded for their accuracy.

“Embers That Linger So,” – where Hamas and his lady friend visit a Hooverville – is my most published short story, appearing in four publications - Bastards, Planters and Gatherers, The Ravens Perch and Southern Times.       

Anthologies

Thank goodness for anthologies. “Bill, Polio, and Baseball Dreams,” has appeared in three: Collected Short Stories - The Lockdown Is Over, Scars Publications; Never The Twain, People’s Productions; Sprung From Grief, Past-time Collective. “An Oklahoma Christmas” (first published as, “A Bartlesville Christmas)” was selected for Veterans Bet on Life, and Best Stories By American Veterans. “Rules of Dying,” and “After Midnight” appeared in Good News from the Homefront and Modern South, respectively.