I was born the fourth of five ragtag children into a family struggling for survival in the “Jim Crow’era of rural Talladega county, Alabama. And of these five special children , I’ve emerged as the...view moreI was born the fourth of five ragtag children into a family struggling for survival in the “Jim Crow’era of rural Talladega county, Alabama. And of these five special children , I’ve emerged as the one with a natural gift for story-telling; with this first offering being the culmination of my need to indulge that gift. My older siblings contributed mightily to my ambitions by making sure I knew my ABC’s, my numbers from 1-100, and held a nominal grasp of telling time before entering first grade. Marvel and D.C. comics can be credited with making me a ravenous consumer of the written word as well as stimulating my love for art and story-telling. Though I am God-conscious, I don’t feel the need for my content to be ‘preachy’ or that my readers should feel they will be whacked upside the head with that fact, but only that a faith-based orientation can provide some positive inflections on one’s life, and those positive impulses can inspire an amiable quality to my work. I hope to succeed in entertaining, enlightening and inspiring readers to want to read more, and more and more...peace.view less