The Second Tour

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Books

The Second Tour is a literary account of the Vietnam War based on the author’s personal experience. It can be accessed at The Second Tour.

Short Stories

1) Ace is an unpublished flash-fiction story about payback. It can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fegPue9u1VkgPoDMZ27be1S3i-2q0QAIL_2ztcEtQO8/edit?hl=en_US#

Articles

1) Analyzing Fiction is a reading guide takes the form of questions appropriate to ask when examining any work of fiction. It’s a slightly revised version of the one I got from Jin Brown, a fellow graduate student of English at the University of Oklahoma, who got it from one of his undergraduate professors, I think at Washburn University in Kansas. It’s by no means intended to be exhaustive, but I’ve used it successfully in teaching introductory writing and literature courses. It can be accessed at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NtwzVSZhbVX8XEKBZoZgzRISnLhRdLRv2b3jaVbBHWw/edit?hl=en_US#

2) Traces of Poe in Whitman is a paper I wrote for English Literature 4723, a class called Poe/Whitman, taught in the spring Semester of 1976 by Dr. Roy Male, a David Ross Boyd Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. I later submitted the paper in a writing contest under the pen name Rosco Rizzo, and was awarded the University’s Vernon L. Parrington Prize. I recieved a check for $50, my first payment for something I’d written. I remember being very excited because I was rebuilding a car motor and needed a torque wrench really bad, a Craftsman tool from Sears that cost over $40.

I revised this article slightly to address spelling and grammar issues, and because the editor in me couldn’t resist. Afterall, if one’s writing hasn’t improved in 35 years, then something is very wrong. The article is accessible at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZeYi4Z0S2Xya–vH-AnlTzCSMLu23czTsZqMSXaLc6M/edit#

Poetry