I was raised on my family’s farm outside Yuma, Arizona, and thought I would become a farmer when I grew up. That didn’t happen. Instead, I studied literature and writing as an undergraduate at the University of Arizona and as a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. At UT, I wrote book reviews for The Daily Texan. I was also a member of a loosely organized group of writers who gave public readings wherever we could find space. We gave reading in libraries, bookstores, and bars. I taught middle and high school English for thirty-five years. During my summer breaks I wrote. Since retiring I’ve written EMPTY FUTURE and The FI EXPERIMENT. I also have two other novel manuscripts and several plays. My most recent play, “Links,” was produced at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
BOOKS
After the invention of teleportation, the world’s population has taken advantage of instantaneous travel to visit anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, all who enter the machines have their souls ripped from their bodies, leaving behind animated thinking corpses bereft of love, compassion, and empathy. They do not tolerate the living.
An alien civilization observing our planet for thousands of years has chosen one individual to make its initial contact with the human race. Maybe they chose the wrong human