BRAG SHELF

Thanks to the convenience of online shopping and the easy transactional purchase process of WalMart.com, my five-shelf ladder bookcase arrived earlier this week. Having made the time to construct it this evening, I found the assembly relatively easy. And unlike other bookcases I have put together, this one was exceptionally easy to move once completed.

The first shelf houses one of the Wonderfalls reading monkey bookends.

The second shelf showcases three books: Bud the Bunny 1.0, The First Line, Vol. 9, Issue 1, Spring 2007, and Bud the Bunny 2.0, and two plush rabbits: Bud 2.0 and Bud 3.0 (Bud 1.0 keeps me company at my day job and reminds me of my true calling).

The third shelf is home to the other Wonderfalls reading monkey bookend.

The remaining fourth and fifth shelves are currently bare.

I need to submit more stories for publication.

PUBLISHED - THE FIRST LINE SPRING 2007

I am proud to announce my first published short story is now available in the Spring 2007 (Vol 9, Issue 1) edition of The First Line. 10 stories for $3.00 (plus S&H), all starting with the same first line:

"In Pigwell, time is not measured by days or weeks but by the number of eighteen wheelers that drive past my house."

Apparently I am unable to currently write anything without a genre (fantasy/science fiction/horror) element, so please considered that my Persian flaw as you read "An Angry Winter", found on page 27.

The check has been scanned for posterity and cashed for dinner.