The storySouth Million Writers Award for Fiction announces the "Notable Stories of 2004" and my short story, "First Thing in the Morning," which appeared in THREE CANDLES made the list.
Jason Sanford, fiction editor and publisher of storySouth, announces: "Here they are: The top online short stories of 2004 . . . The only criteria used to select these stories was excellence and, as you will see, there is plenty of excellence to be found among online journals and magazines."
There were just over 1,200 nominations in all. I am honored and thrilled that my story appears on this list, and that Steve Mueske, Editor of Three Candles, nominated it among all the fine stories that appeared in Three Candles in 2004.
May I offer you a Round the World Cruise of a lifetime for the price of a novel?
Not only do the seas roll on but two romances,a death at sea, uncovered past lives, history uncovered in Brazil, caves in Australia, poetry in Senegal, the Lux Mundi
Sarah Thompson has ten days on Maui to find her lifetime after lifetime soulmate. She is certain he is waiting for her there on one of the last remaining land masses of Mu still above water.
My second book is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and is bullied to the point to where he shoots up his school. I have divided the excerpts from it into three parts: Before, during and after the shooting.