TED'S ARTICLES...
a small
sampling of published pieces from previous
years:
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My literary career, until
now, has been like a cross-country odyssey that
stalled somewhere in Jersey City---or worse, in a
garage in Jersey City, someplace that wasn’t
in my itinerary in the first place. Here I am,
dreaming of the Great Lakes, the Grand Canyon,
the Rockies, the Sierras, and I'm lucky if I can
back my car into the street and find the
interstate. Such is the paradox of this
out-of-the-way journey I've undertaken.
Impractical and unnecessary, though it may
seem---no one has imposed it on me---it is a path
I have chosen. You could say that the path has
chosen me.
And in spite of the hurdles and detours the world
keeps throwing at me, I am resolved to continue
this journey. Stripped of everything but my love
of words, and of people who enjoy reading them, I
throw this bad boy into gear yet again and press
on.
All undressed and somewhere to go. That pretty
much describes me.
If you, kind readers, can bear to see the
"naked me" (figuratively speaking, that
is), then I invite you to sample the fruits of
that literary journey I began a long time ago.
Allow me to share with you a few of the places my
mind has visited thus far. The pieces are short
and sweet, some sweeter than others, some not so
short. Many have already been published. The rest
are just now trying their legs for the first time
outside my desk drawer---or hard drive, as the
case may be. They still please me when I read
them.
These appetizers, plus my grand course novella, are the
reasons I continue to believe in that journey.
I trust that my work proves more remarkable than
my life has been. And that it will make believers
out of you. Together, we may be able to push this
career "vehicle" out of the ditch and
set it back on the main highway, where more
readers, I'm hoping, will come on board.Ted
Gargiulo Jr.
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