John Scheck has lived in four
countries on three continents. In no particular order, these include
eight years in Lower Queen Anne in Seattle; the Miraflores district of
Lima, Peru, during a university program; the Glyfada area of
greater Athens, Greece, as part of his short and distinguished service
in the U.S. Air Force; and currently, the Ruzafa neighborhood in sunny Valencia,
Spain, is home.
His humor essays have appeared on several websites and magazines, as well as National Lampoon's Not Fit for Print. His short story, “Visiting Day,” was published in Noirville, a noir story collection from Fahrenheit Press. He recently published his first book, Nothing Personal,
a collection of humor essays.
Returning to the first person, I still can't say that I'm a musician and keep a straight face, but I'm working on it. I have no one to blame but myself. I either should have started younger, or talked myself out of trying to learn the piano as an adult.
A flash fiction story of of mine can be read here.
I’ve
come to love this 700 word story format, not so much for the content,
but as a writing exercise. You have to look at every single word and
make a decision whether it lives or dies. Why use two verbs when you can
use a contraction? Do you need that adjective? Can you eliminate the
subject without confusing the reader?
