Ken’s Writings
I’ve been writing stories since I was 12 years old. I graduated from University of Arizona in Creative Writing in 2004 at the age of 60! Most of my writing is the genre of autobiographical narrative fiction, aside from non-fiction journalism and true-life stories. In the last few years, I have been transcribing 59 journals I started in 1963 to the present year of 2024. So far, I am at nearly 800,000 words, but nothing has been edited yet, so it will be cut down to a few volumes at around 100,000 words each. You must understand, I am 80 years old, and I have had quite big life, which you will too, if you write and live as long as me.
THE LUSTFUL ADMIRATION OF BILLY SUNDOWN
This is the true story of Billy Sundown, a young cowboy deep in the heart of Scotland. What? Scotland? Well, he wasn’t really a cowboy, but he wore boots, spurs, a ten gallon hat and a big western gun belt.
The Seventh Book
This story is like all the rest of my stories. There is no beginning and as of yet I haven’t been able to have an end. The reason there is no beginning is because …
The Beast of 1967
In November 1974 I began writing a novella which is a "shaggy dog tale" satire of alienation and loneliness – I was having fun playing with the concept, a date of a year could be a living thing.
Happy Valley
This is my story, or at least my version even if other people who survived are going to tell it another way. My name is Thaana. I’m so embarrassed how I got into this condition.
Ferry to Corsica
I got on the Calvi, the new ferry that runs between Nice and Bastia. It is state of the art technology and it looks more like a spaceship than a boat. People are sardine packed.
Assassin’s Angel
It was Santiago McBoil’s 50th birthday when he arrived on a late evening in a mountain valley of Corsica. He rendezvoused with Neil Rowan, a Scottish friend who had been …
All is Fair in Parking Meters
Santiago McBoil smoked an unfiltered camel as he circled the faded yellow 77 Dodge truck around the central plaza of Santa Fe. Affluent tourists crowded the expensive little square.
NON FICTION AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION TO BE UPLOADED IN NEAR FUTURE. DATED OCTOBER 26, 2024
NON-FICTION
ANALYSIS: MY LAI MASSACRE
At the age of 56, in 2000 I was tired of being a visual artist.
Writing, which has been my second love, since the age of 12, came to the forefront.
I returned to University life, initially at New Mexico State University, in Los Cruces, choosing Journalism as my major and Creative Writing my minor while considering following an English Master degree in Creative Writing..
Transferring to the University of Arizona in 2002, I Graduated Magna Cum Laude with the award of Academic Distinction in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson, 2004.
The following documentary report was my last assignment in the U of A Journalism department , of who Jacqueline Sharkey, significantly, Head of the Journalism Department and had been the lead investigative reporter with the Washington Post, uncovering the Oliver North/ Contra/ Arms for Iran scandal, under RAY-GUNS Administration, forewarned me, I was attempting a doctorate paper for a Bachelor’s degree.
I took her challenge.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OLD BONES AND DOG SHOES
When one begins writing an autobiography there is the frightening possibility you are confronting the reality of “He was a legend in his own mind,” and this is a feasible criticism of my meanderings to come, except for one great truth, that I am part of an amazing family, and have been comrades with incredible talented genuine friends scattered across the world, and without them I would have no story at all.