Actung: Billy and Barney are 20 years old.

Actung: Billy and Barney are 20 years old.: " Early in 1991 I was at home minding my youngest three siblings, one of whom had just turned 8, while the the ..."

Billy and Barney are 20 years old.

      Early in 1991 I was at home minding my youngest three siblings, one of whom had just turned 8, while the the other two were aproaching 7 and 4 years old. Kids being kids, there was trouble, noise, fighting and crying. Nothing I was doing was calming things down, well that was until I dived behind a chair, taking off my shoes and socks.

      Diving behind the chair confused my siblings into silence. At last I had a bit of peace, and this is where the fun began. I put a sock over each hand creating sock puppets and raised them up to peer over the top of the seat. Calling the puppets Billy and Barney, a series of kids stories were born. Safe to say that my youngest brother and two youngest sisters began laughing, and I promised them that if they were good, that we would have a Billy and Barney story at bedtime.

      The first Billy and Barney story began on that day twenty years ago. Over the next eighteen months or so another seven stories became part of bed time. The first five of those stories are up @ short-ficiton.com. I f i ever remember how the other three stories went I will add them too, but how time flies. However it its only in recent years that I began a second series of childrens stories, and they would be 'the Liggle Turkle' stories which I also have @ short-fiction.com. Being an uncle of eight (well soon to be of 8, with litttle Harry due any day now) I guess I have childrens stories for two generations. :)

2011

      The reponse I have been getting to what I write has been really great, so I may as well continue posting my stories in 2011. In 2010 I had no real plan of what I was going to write and post. I still had plenty of old stories to type up and had no problems coming up with new stories. So it was whatever caught my fancy and whenever I had the time to type them up is how and when my writings went up. However for 2011 i have more of a plan and hopefully I will stick to it.

      There are still more old stories to go up, and I have plenty of ideas for some new stories too. I also want to complete the stories that I have a series of, such as the 'Brothers Of The Village' series which I will be bringing to an end, and my series of vampire stories will also continue. The Vampire series started with 'Vampire Weekend' and continued with 'Son of a Vampire' which is a follow on to Vampire Weekend. The third story will concentrate on the main character from Vampire Weekend and will be titled 'What Happened To Gabriel Grimmel' which follows what happens to him in the years after that Vampire Weekend and why he abandoned his son Seth who is obviously the son in Son Of A Vampire. The fourth story in the series will concentrate on Seth and the friendships he has made in School.

      So for anyone who does follow what I write I hope that you'll enjoy what goes up in 2011.