Mark Wagstaff’s work has appeared in The Write Launch, Garden, The Meadow, The Piltdown Review and The New Guard. He won the 39th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest with off-kilter romantic comedy 'Attack of the Lonely Hearts' published by Anvil Press. Mark’s second short story collection 'Burn Lines' was published by InkTears.
My mother was a great reader of romances. Not the classic kind. The sort that make money. In my far-back childhood in the last century, reading a book was still a usual way to pass time.