I spent twelve years in the U.S. Air Force, protecting my right to write later. Here it is later and without many more excuses I put fingers to keys and brewed up some fiction... my small contribution to stamping out illiteracy. So far my work has appeared in over a dozen places, including Daily Science Fiction, Penumbra Magazine, Intergalactic Medicine Show, The Colored Lens, and Unidentified Funny Objects, with more popping up all the time.Right now I'm working on my third novel, if you define "working on" loosely. I'm no longer in Afghanistan, but I'm learning life everywhere comes with its own list of priorities. I tell stories about these priorities and talk about storytelling in general at http://fictigristle.wordpress.com