Against the Current

I'd like to thank those readers who take the time to write reviews of my books. It's very helpful to hear your comments. I hope you'll enjoy my latest work, "Scar Songs: Stories'' and I hope you've had a chance to read my novel, "As Time Goes By." I can be reached at: wroyceadams. com where you will find reviews of other of my books. I'd be happy to hear from you. Watch me read from "As Time Goes By" on Chaucer's Bookstore YouTube. Over the years, I have published over a dozen college textbooks, academic journal articles, fantasy middle-grade chapter books, three juvenile novels, a short story collection, "Against the Current," and a novel, "As Time Goes By." I won the Haunted Waters Literary Magazine's 2016 Grand Prize Short Story Contest, Honorable Mentions from Glimmer Train, and for a notable essay of 2016 by Best American Essays, 2017. My works have appeared in The Rockford Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Catamaran, In the Depths, Coe Review, Chaffey Review, Adelaide, bosque, Evening Street Press and others. I am Past-president of the California Reading and Learning Association and a member of The Authors Guild. I live in Santa Barbara, California.

In this revised edition, if there is one thread running through most of the stories, it is each protagonist's hauntingly familiar self-reflection and emotion in encountering challenging events and relationships - that is, in going "against the current" of life.These stories of varying length and styles range in seriousness and humor and contain a rich reading lode deserving much mining.