![]() ![]() After all, how do you define that which refuses to fit within a single genre or standard category? So I usually just call my stuff literary fiction because that’s what I strive for - a sense that what I’ve created is literature as opposed to “just a story” or “just a novel” - the distinction being that literature not only entertains but through metaphor achieves a didactic function as well. And I think this is true also of my writing which has led to difficulty finding traditional publishers. I think what this says is that others have had trouble defining me, too, and have thus boiled me down to one letter, the least common denominator of written language. After that I was Roscoe & Rizzo for several years, then Tooto in graduate school. In Vietnam I was Rootie, mostly because a friend there couldn’t say Rizzuti. Don’t ask why it’s a long story and a misnomer anyway. ![]() ![]() In grade school they called me Skip, Skipper or Skippy, I guess because I liked to skip everywhere and was better at it than even the girls. Turning more deeply into my writing, my work, how do I even begin to define it without defining myself, without narrowing down who I am? Nicknames perhaps exemplify this. Three excerpts from Suffering Seacil were previously published in online journals. It’s what I call Antagonistic Fiction, a work whose main character is the antagonist. My novel, Suffering Seacil: For Better or For Worse, was begun in 1995 and finished in 2013. The Second Tour: Wounds of War, my first novel, was begun in 1984 and took almost twenty-five years to come out with the first edition. Currently, I’m a writer (an author mostly) living in Estes Park, Colorado. ![]() In that section, you will also find that in 1977 I was awarded the University of Oklahoma’s Vernon L. I have several military awards which are listed in my Toots section, as well as an honorable discharge (not all that easy for a thinking individualist, by the way). I’m a member of The 26th Marines Association and Flinch Forward, as well as a life member of The American Legion, The Veterans of Foreign Wars, The Disabled American Veterans, and The Khe Sanh Veterans Association. After that, I completed two years of graduate-level literature studies, then went to work at OU until 1996. In December 1969, I got out of the Marine Corps and immediately re-enrolled at OU where I graduated with an English Literature degree in 1977. I served a tour in Vietnam as a “grunt” from October 1966 to November 1967 assigned to Golf Company of the 26th Marine Regiment and was wounded in May 1967. In 1965, I graduated high school, started college that same year at the University of Oklahoma (OU), then dropped out (flunked out, really) and joined the Marine Corps in early 1966. I was born in Oklahoma and spent my early youth in upstate New York. However, I want participants here (bloggers, for instance) to take anything I say with a grain of pepper, for this should be dialogue not lecture. I also want to antagonize readers, spur them to think, perhaps even to act. I like to make stuff up, but I also like to say something important at the same time, something lasting. I’ve said this before, more than once probably, but I think it’s still worth repeating: I am fiction personified. I welcome all comers, but here’s the deal, I am primarily a literary fiction writer. Most of my work is available on Amazon in book form and includes war stories as well as what I call antagonistic fiction. Thank you, and here’s wishing you an adventurous journey.Īll that said, here goes - I’m Terry, of course, and I've written novels, short stories, articles and poems. It’s an introduction to me and my written work, so if FFTF persuades you to venture into my written work, my promise to you as a reader is also simple: if after digging into my work fairly deeply, you feel your money has been wasted, please contact me for a full refund. Put simply, this website, like most I suppose, is pretty self-serving. Welcome to my personal website, Food For Thought Fiction, or FFTF for short. ![]()
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