The Florida Writer      

On this page are some projects recently completed or currently being worked on. 

Besides working on "The Chuck and Cody Sports Report" with WNZF, I just finished writing an article to be published in the "Distinquished Lifestyles Magazine" As always, I continue to write on any subject the Courier Journal offers me. You can also find more of my articles on The Bleacher Report, FoxSports.com, Espn.com, S.I.com, and Helium.com. All articles are written under the pen name: Firedawg1982.

Also included on this page is a brief introduction to a short story in progress entitled, "Lake Kenyon."

How long is a short story?

Determining what exactly separates a short story from longer fictional formats is problematic. A classic definition of a short story is that one should be able to be read it in one sitting, a point most notably made in Edgar Allan Poe's essay "The Philosophy of Composition" (1846). Other definitions place the maximum word length at 7,500 words. In contemporary usage, the term short story most often refers to a work of fiction no longer than 20,000 words and no shorter than 1,000. Stories less than 1,000 words are usually referred to either as "short short fiction" or "short shorts" or even "Flash Fiction.

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                      Lake Kenyon

For the residents of the sleepy little southern town of Crescent Cove, Lake Kenyon is a deadly place to swim, an evil place where terrible things happen. Like a series of mysterious drownings and no bodies recovered. All were reported as accidents, but could they all be a coincidence. Sheriff Dustin Chandler is determined to find the truth.

Chandler's search will take him into the city's hidden past, a past filled with secrets and horror and to the tragic shores of that haunted lake. He will uncover rumors and whispered legends-including the legend of the angry lost soul that lives and waits beneath the surface of Lake Kenyon.

By: Charles J Asbury II