SOME CAME AFTER is a compelling tour de force sequel to William Williamson's first Florida Keys novel, SOME CAME FIRST, picking up thirteen years later at a small mom and pop restaurant in Key Largo. A young man has a chance meeting with a woman who shares the same burning desire like him to change the course of their lives by hitchhiking to Key West to seek and discover what life holds for them in the southernmost city at the end of the road on U.S. 1. Corky is searching for the roots of his past. Cat is running from hers. Henry Roberts, Florida Keys native and now, local Matecumbe author,...

St. Augustine, William's adapted hometown, is not as well known for its revelry or debauchery like Key West or New Orleans but since its founding 450 years ago, there have always been taverns where hungry and thirsty souls came for food, spirits, company and entertainment. Almost five centuries later, lights from the grog houses still beckon those who wish to come in from the night for more of the same. Whether it's called a bar, lounge, saloon, pub or tavern, Last Call, Selected Bar Prose, a compilation of twenty years of work chosen from fifteen different prose books written by William...

With After Hours, Selected Bar Prose Vol. II, St. Augustine's resident prose poet, William Williamson is back with volume two following the first book, Last Call, Selected Bar Prose. The focus is still in St. Augustine, William's adapted hometown, a town not as well known for its revelry or debauchery like Key West or New Orleans but since its founding 450 years ago, there have always been bars, saloons, pubs and taverns where hungry and thirsty souls came for food, spirits, company and entertainment. Almost five centuries later, it's not the sleepy carriage town of the past, neon lights and...

In Redundant Ruminations of a Hand Well Stroked, the latest book of prose by St. Augustine's resident poet and Florida Keys novelist, William Williamson brings to the page, ruminations on writing as well as timeless observations and recollections from the past and present. His work is shaved, naked and direct. Everyday humanity swathed in the existence of ordinary life. A stripper dancing for dollars, a divorcing couple hooking up for sex, a trip to a pawn shop, a hospital visit, ordering a pizza. Ambiguous moments in life that sears the conscious creating consequential memories that serve a...