Soldier's Gap is a non-traditional mystery with literary elements. The high school principal is brutally murdered, but Deputy Sheriff Dave Jenkins's search for meaning and love is a much more significant theme.
"Murder isn't usually this fun
Be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. Robert Southey
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Major influences in literature?
David (the great and gentle Psalmist), Emily Dickinson, an elementary school band director, a high school librarian, a freshman comp instructor (who saw himself very accurately in T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"), two excellent poetry professors, and one Texas cowboy.
Birth Place
Lake Charles, LA USA
Accomplishments
Literary Awards: 1991, 1st Place, Pulse Essay Award; 2002, 3rd place (TACWT - Texas Assoc of Creative Writing Teachers) Competition, Barnes Poetry Award; 2003, Eleanor Poetry Award; 2004, 2nd Place—International Society of Poets Convention, Orlando, Fl with induction into ISP; 2004\2005 Eleanor Perlstein Weinbaum Memorial Scholarship; 2006, The Best Poets and Poetry of 2005; 2006, Margaret Reid Commemorative Award for Traditional Verse, 2007 ed Marquis’s Who’s Who of American Women
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