Hello and Happy Friday,

I was going to submit a short story featuring my character Detective Owen Story today, but I'm not going to because it's not ready, though I wrote it a few years ago.

It's funny how you can re-read something you've written when you could barely write and have gotten a little better (just a little) at the writing game; only then--if you're lucky--can you see how bad was you earlier writing. This is what happened to my Owen Story short-story called Ghost Town. It isn't terrible, but its pretty bad; wordy, too long, confusing and I wouldn't let my dog read it if he could read; so I'm definitely not going to let you guys do it, wasting your time and imagination. So I'm reworking the story and making it better and to my relief I've learned how to do it--somewhat; I hope you think so too.

I'm offering the story next week, the much better version. I hope you get a chance to read it; want to read it and if you have any questions or want to tell me I missed the mark and why, please do, I would love to hear from you.

So next week the story; see ya then.

If you have any comments or suggestions please e-mail me at my new address: shabazzl@adasbcc.org.

Until next time, God willing,

Lori