I've written five out of the eight episodes of E-Vatar: A Musical for the Pandemic Age. The episodes are planned; I just need all the cool words to make it a play. But the work is winding down on that project for me. It's up to the performers, musicians, director, and the sound engineer, now. …
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Bay City Runaway – Part 8
I walked home a little more briskly than usual, skipping McMillen’s again. I wanted to know how Amy’s day had been; see her safe in my apartment. When I arrived, I was relieved to find her sitting in my club chair, swirling brandy in one of my crystal snifters. On the living room table were …
Bay City Runaway – Part 5
I fell in and out of sleep that night, awaking to dreams of a former life. I dreamed that I was with Laura again. We were watching TV together. I could smell her perfume. I vaguely remember the nurse coming in to feed me another oxycodone. When I woke up the next morning, pale light …
Bay City Runaway – Part 4
I woke up with a throbbing arm and a head that felt as if a brick had smacked it. I rang for the nurse. I examined my arm. It was braced in a sling and resting on my stomach. I touched my head with my free hand and found a bandage covering a rather large …
Bay City Runaway – Part 3
Bay City Runaway Home The rain stirred the dormant smell of bum piss as we stepped onto the sidewalk. Neither one of us had an umbrella, but she didn’t seem to care, and neither did I. The water mixed with the dust on the sidewalk, creating a fine grit beneath our feet as we turned …
A Friend of the Family – Part 2
A Friend of the Family She looked off over the heads of the mourners at some far away point--perhaps at the mural of the fish and loaves on the back wall of the sanctuary or perhaps into the ether of her glory years as a soprano section leader of the Grace Presbyterian Church of yesteryear. …
Bay City Runaway Available as a Daily Serial – FREE
As I navigate my way through the beginnings of a writing career, my number one goal is to be read. I have a publisher for one of my books, but my latest book is still unsigned: Bay City Runaway. I've published it myself on Amazon and a number of people have read it. But as …
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Getting into the rhythm with the new work in progress
I've started writing a new novel--a journalist uncovers a dark secret centered around his childhood church in the south. When I wrote Bay City Runaway, once I got into a rhythm, I wrote the first draft in about a month. That's an average of 2800 a day. A little bipolar mania, nudged that along, and …
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Welcome Goodreads!
I've establishing my author status on Goodreads! I'm still establishing myself with my books. Two of my books, Bay City Runaway and My Wife Says I'm Complicated, are associated with me and others to come! My most recent book is a novel, Bay City Runaway David Wilson-Burns, author of Whiff and My Wife Says I’m …
Bay City Runaway in Paperback
David Wilson-Burns, author of Whiff and My Wife Says I’m Complicated, offers his gritty and emotionally potent debut novel, Bay City Runaway, a story of two runaways finding each other in their escape from abuse and tragedy. James, a thirty-something software wiz with a drinking problem, runs away to San Francisco to escape a tragedy …
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