I was eight years old, the first time I caught the attention of a crowd with my storytelling. Seven children stood captivated as I told of the time when our family's pet Doberman Pinscher became engaged in a horrendous fight with my dad, ending with my dad killing the dog with a knife. It was fifteen minutes long and a lie. But then, fiction is like that. Since that day, I've written music reviews and a music business column for Night Moves Magazine, graduated at the top of my class with a BS in Multimedia Technology, won an award for fiction writing, was part of an award winning poetry troupe...