I obsess. I know that. But I find myself thinking there's something these people are trying to say to me. Not the famous people, they've been done. I mean the forgotten souls that haunt the outskirts. The souls haunt, and they're haunted, too. Maybe something that was too painful to say out loud when they lived, and I can't help but think I need to find that thing. It may be ugly, but not shameful. Not any more. After all, everyone they knew is dead, as they are. Choices they made, didn't make, didn't think were choices at all, but shaped them into the people they were. Forgotten by time now, but not by me. They still jump out at me; folklore, yellowed pages of newspapers and chronicles that are a hundred plus years old. And maybe they're not interested in me knowing, but I'm reaching out, back through time, asking them to answer my questions, to delve into their unspoken, unknown thoughts, that I want to know the answers to.  

David Taylor sold his first piece to Black Belt magazine back in 1980. It's been fits and starts ever since, with an eclectic array of publishers. After writing several pieces for Black Belt, Karate Illustrated and Inside Kung Fu, he sold a men's action adventure novel to Soldier of Magazine Presents, a series by TOR. 'Shuttle Showdown' is available at Amazon.com. More recently, he has sold at Desert USA.com, and DezertMagazine.com, and can be found at In-The-Desert.com

Dave's handle at Desert USA is Space Cowboy.Works published on-line: Desert Sprite http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/oct/stories/sprite.html,The Shaman's Cave; http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/dec/stories/cave.html Ryan Mountain Ruins; http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/apr/stories/ryan.html