Memphis Trace's Profile
| Penname: | Memphis Trace |
| Country: | United States |
| Favorite book: | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Member type: | Author |
| Member Since: | Feb 4, 2009 |
| Bio: | I'm 65 years old and semi-retired. After being caught shirking a lot early on in my life, I learned to read and write at college and then went to work at Washington, DC, to take advantage of my early life work experience. I say semi-retired because when you've been dodging work for as long as I have, it is sometimes difficult to know whether you've retired or just resting. I was born in the fictional Appalachian town of Blue Ruby, Virginia. At the age of 13, or so, I was born again as a story teller. Since I retired I've gotten baptized, full immersion, as a story teller who tries to write stories down. Story telling on the front porch in the utopian town of Blue Ruby is practiced for the most part by moonshiners, oral historians, and assorted other liars. Between shifts in Washington, I've talked a lot to myself, read a lot to myself, and listened patiently to others (also with my mouth moving but no words coming out). I dodged work for a long time and an even longer marriage of 40 years so that I could retire comfortably to sit with my wife on the front porch to tell stories and talk about good books, a practice I picked up from my forebears in Blue Ruby who claimed they could read. To my everlasting surprise, once a few years ago as I practiced for my renaissance, my wife told me with four words and a comma to shut up. I won't tell you even the clean words because then you'd be able to figure out the cuss words and it would get back to her that I was washing her dirty laundry in public. Instead of holding a grudge, and in order to perpetuate and perpetrate my legacy, I tried for a while to talk to a tape recorder out of her hearing, but felt unappreciated. I've had to turn to the written word. Now that I've mastered the written English language, I will start as soon as I learn to type better to write my stories down and sit with my wife on the front porch to close my eyes and listen to her read and appreciate them out loud. I have come to this site to practice my typing and to get your help. |
User Writings
| Title/Name | Date | Ranking | Reviews | Type | |
| Mar 14, 2010 | 235 | 47 | Novel | ||
Every day John L Porter sinks further into... | |||||
| May 15, 2009 | 263 | 11 | Poetry | ||
For Becca and Corra and CatWrites22 | |||||
| Mar 12, 2009 | 759 | 9 | Short Story | ||
I posted this story with an original title of... | |||||
| Mar 12, 2009 | 361 | 13 | Short Story | ||
I’ve modified this story to make it a... | |||||
| Mar 19, 2009 | 1508 | 4 | Short Story | ||
This is a story I wrote 25 years ago and have... | |||||
| Jan 31, 2010 | 1985 | New | Short Story | ||
Ambitious Romance muse seeks to secure his... | |||||
| May 9, 2009 | 602 | 13 | Short Story | ||
A story of a visit to an adult care center for... | |||||
| Jun 27, 2009 | 1705 | New | Short Story | ||
I'm considering this as a third prologue for... | |||||
| Jun 2, 2009 | 281 | 15 | Short Story | ||
The story of how Blue Ruby, Virginia, got it's... | |||||
| Jan 31, 2010 | 1537 | 4 | Short Story | ||
Looking for love | |||||
| Mar 11, 2010 | 273 | 17 | Short Story | ||
The story of a refractory alcoholic. | |||||
