Cliff Rhodes

I am a writer of Science Fiction/ Fantasy novels, short stories, and poetry. I self publish my own books. I have plans to illustrate my work but they are still in the production stage at the moment. Pen and ink sketches are piling up in notebooks but some of them are half finished. I also have to scan them into the computer and upload them to the manuscripts. It is difficult to imagine a scene that I have written, and then draw what I see in my mind. I prefer to draw from nature. My writings are mostly from my imagination. In other words, I live in a dream world and don't write from reality, usually not writing from real experiences. On occasion, my real life experiences do transfer into my books or poetry, like feelings and emotions. I have published some of my own books and continue to write and I am presently working on three new books. I like to write about a future world that could be with us now, human relationships, and always about love. My books have some violence and some mature inuendos, but on the most part are acceptable for teens and have a generally positive outcome where good triumphs over evil.
Most of the grammatical errors and punctuation have been corrected, but I believe to live is the frenzy to create and have purposefully not spent an enormous amount of time studying English. Although I do consult the many English textbooks I have collected, feel free to point out gross negligence, if you are inclined to do so, and I promise not to call you ugly names, honest.
The photographs posted here are entirely my own or ones I have taken and then downloaded from my other web sites. I am an artist and I like to paint, draw, or create photos with themes, which I like to use with my poetry and stories. I hope you enjoy reading excerpts from my books and I will post other writings and photographs in the future. If you want to be my friend, just click to ask. You don't have to say a word. Sometimes to just be there as a friend is enough and makes me feel like I exist, nice. Thank you.
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