Welcome to George’s Story my newest blog
Welcome to my latest blog. I hope your visit will meet with your satisfaction. In my blog I will post stories that have been selected as worthwhile stories for Reedy’s blog as well as stories from my memoir. There will be a book review and even some writing tips if you happen to be a writer like me. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about my blog.
Here are the stories I have included in my Blue Post host:
- “Contessa Learns a Lesson” An author Benedict Rollings meets a character from his latest children’s book. Contessa is a spoiled child that Benedict teaches a lesson to about manners and etiquette.
- “How to Set a Moose on Fire” is true story pulled off the front pages of the Anchorage newspaper back in 1999 about a couple of Fish and Wildlife agents who accidently set a moose on fire trying to get him to leave a backyard, but the real hilarity was in how this was explained to the press afterwards.
- “Remote Control” A recent widower is reminiscing about his late wife Elizabeth when he finds a remote control that will control time. His memories come to life and he relives some of the best moments of his life with his wife, but what happens when the video comes to the end?
- “Exile in the Wasteland” is a work in creative nonfiction when T.S. Eliot comes to a psychiatric hospital where his friend Ezra Pound is a patient. Both Eliot and Pound were poets who helped shaped modern poetry. T.S Eliot has come to advocate for his friend Ezra.
- “Cheap Beer and Pizza” is from my memoir of my last meal with my mother Carole. As a patient in hospice, I had the honor of spending some time with her as she struggled with Hodkins Lymphoma. She requested the cheap beer she had stored in her basement and a pizza from Little Caesars. Little did I know it would be the last meal I had with her.
- “Jordan Power” is the story of my black Labrador Jordan and I lived on the Russian River in California where she would swim across the river while I took a hold of her collar so she would take me to the shore on the other side of the river, a memory that is still with me.
In my blog I have also included a short piece on “creative nonfiction” and a book review of The Insider: Malcomb Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature by Gerald Howard which explores the little known career of Malcomb Cowley who was head of Viking Press during the what was known as “The Lost Generation” era.
I hope you find something you like in the new edition of my blog known as George’s Story on Blue Press. I will continue to update material in my blog, so keep coming back.
Thank you
