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Good evening. There is a new addition to my portfolio. The other night, I thought to myself, "self, it's been a mighty long time since you've written about bigfoot." In fact, it's been almost 20 years. The first novel I ever completed was about bigfoot, and the first 80% was great (at least, I thought so) but the ending was horrible. It never saw the light of day, and alas, the manuscript has been lost over the years. Even if it did exist, I'm still not sure the ending is fixable. Anyway, I let the idea bounce around the ol' noggin and within a couple hours the Roosevelt story popped in. A day later I had the entire first draft completed. I've made a couple passes at editing, but I'm sure fresh eyes will pick up mistakes I've missed. This is the part that I can't do alone. So I leave it in your hands, readers. Hope you enjoy it. I know when the story comes out with this little effort, its a wonderful reminder of how much fun writing can be!

Enjoy!

 
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Face to Face With The Beast Open in new Window. (13+)
The true-ish story of a former President and his encounter with an unknown creature.
Cool. I was obsessed as a kid.
Brian K Compton Author Icon - It's a topic that's fascinating to me as well. There's another story I may tackle at some point that I considered writing, and that's Lewis & Clark. William Clark is also convinced he met one face-to-face, only in his case it wasn't by proxy. Clark kept a journal of the trip and his actual journal still exists. I want to say it's in the Smithsonian maybe? And here's the part that makes the conspiracy types lose their mind. There is one volume of his journals which was lost sometime after it reached President Jefferson's desk. I bet you can guess which volume that is. There's a story there that deserves similar treatment one day.
Rick Dean - Dinosaur Author Icon - I’ve enjoyed good mysteries Ike that.
I rarely do the Writers Cramp contest but I had a slow day, wasn't in the middle of any other project, and the prompt seemed interesting, so, here you go:
 
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Giant Lizard in My Backyard Open in new Window. (E)
Mortimer awakens to find an alligator in his yard.
I've been busy lately even if it doesn't show. Today I made public my entry in the Musicology Anthology contest.

Presenting: Jomsviking, based upon the Amon Amarth album of the same title.

I'd been looking for an excuse to write about this time period again but didn't have a story. Then I saw the contest and immediately thought of this album (and about 20 others). I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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