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y nom de plume is L. Stewart
Marsden, which sounds ever-so-
Each spiced with my quirky sense of humor.
I've done everything from work professionally for the Boy Scouts in New York City to grind out public relations and marketing for a rural hospital in western North Carolina. And everything between.
Plays, musicals, poetry, short stories — even skits for an improv group in Manhattan — are part of my repertoire.
Most of my recent work is available on my website, www.skipmars.com. I love visitors, and appreciate the likes. But I especially crave critical comments, as that is the only way an old fart like myself can learn.
I'm currently working on two novels, a play, and a series of children's books.
A native North Carolinian, I have sired five children during the rugged course of two marriages, and I have three grandchildren. No greats on the foreseeable horizon.
Holler if you're ever out my way. And if you play guitar or banjo, we can sit on the porch and pick and grin.
Read Skip's story, STINKY AND THE NIGHT MARE on page 16
much-more classy than Skip, or Lawrence. They only called me Law–rence when I was in trouble. Heaven forbid the name Larry, which was my dad's name.
I stumbled into writing. I really couldn't do anything else. The only award I got in high school was for my history term paper on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, which I dove into with remarkable passion.
Magazines, local guides and newspapers have published me over the years, and a remedial reading textbook printed by Houghton-Mifflin. I recently spent a year-and-a-half as a cub reporter for a local newspaper. At 64, I think I was the oldest cub they'd hired. They got me cheap. Several hundred articles during that spate of time.
I self-published a collection of my short stories in "Through the Glass Darkly", available on Amazon under my nom de plume. I classify the stories as "fringy," but they probably fit more appropriately under fantasy or horror.
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